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DOTTERER FAMILY^ 



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HENRY S. DOTTERER. 



'•'The histiynj nf every family is a riunniire: to those irJio se<ircli 

its p<i<jes, a pocm.^^ 

Dimartine. 



PHILADELPHIA: 
1903. 






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^^T/ic (/raiul-pdirnts arc (juiic, fhc fathers are </oii}(j: l/ie history of 

their toils and aehieremerit)^ is begiiniiv;/ to sv'im in lialf -uncertain 

tviliijlit, iDiil there is hut Ixirelfi time to record fhc doiia/s of their life''s 

dnji Ixfore the ohlirioiis night sets in, ichen records and traditions ivill 

no more recognize one another. 

Rev. Henri/ Ifarhang/i, I). I). 



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> i PREFACE. 



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^^ This work covers a field never befoic entered \)y the genealogist. 

Although it represents a vast expenditure of labor, patience and money, 
it is imperfect in a great degree. Its defects are not altogether chargeable 
to the compiler, but rather to the destruction of German records by- 
English-speaking descendants, to lack of interest in the subject of family 
history, and to misconception of the scope n.nd dignity of the under- 
taking. 

The information embraced in these pages has been ol)tained from 
many sources — from otficial records, chui'ch registers, grave-stones, family 
Bibles, and personal interviews. To the many correspondents who have 
collected and forwarded details, sincere thanks is tendered. In a number 
of instances credit is given in the body of the work. It would be a 
pleasure to make acknowledgment in every case, but that is impracticable. 

HENRY S. DOTTERER. 
I »)().") North Thirteenth street, 
Philadelphia, 
.N<)V«'inl)er, 1902. 



PART I. 



GEORGE PHILIP DODDERER AND HIS 

DESCENDANTS. 



PROBABLE ETVMOLOdY OF THE FAMILY NAME. 

In the Teutonic name systeui, the i'0(it liaviiig tlie meaning- of affec- 
tion oi' fondness may be: 

DO I), TOD, TOT 

This root, in its sim))le forms, is 
Old (icrman, DODo. DoDDO. 
English, TODD, DoDD. 



Oompoundcd, it liecomcs, 

(with HAHI, warrior), in Old O.-rman, 9th century, DOTHARI. 

with lUO, i)ower), in Old German, <)th eentry, DOTRIH. 
In Englisli, DOTRY, DODDPxTDOE, DOTTBID(iE. 



1. (iKoKCK PHILIP DODDERER'. Born in Kurupe; died, in 
Frederick township, Philadelpliia (now Montgomery) county, Pennsyl- 
vania, Xovember 6, 1741. His wife, A'eronica , died, same place, 

October 20, 17o2. Children: 

2. Michael Dotterer-, born in May. 1()98. 

8. Hieronimus Doderer-, born al)()Ut 1701. 

4. Barbara Dodderer", born about 1704. 

5. Bernhard Dodderer'-, born about 1700. 

6. Anna Elizabeth Dodderer", born December 25, 1709. 

7. Conrad Duddarer, -, born in September, 1712. 

The birthplai e of George Philip Dodderer, and the date of his arrival 
in America, notwithstanding diligent search, have not been ascertained. 
The place of origin of the Dotterer family remains to be definitely 
determined. 

December 22, 1722, George Philip Dodderer ]uu'chased of Hans 
Xeues one hundred acres of land; February 3, 1725, of the same, fifty 
acres; and ]March 24, 1738, of the Proprietaries, one hundred acres. 
These three purchases were adjoining tracts, forming a plantation of two 
hundred and fifty acres of fertile land, located on the east and west sides 
of Society Run, in the present Frederick township, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, north of and within half a mile of Keeler's church. He 
resided upon this property until his death, and, as shown by his will, 
devised it to his youngest son, Conrad. 

In the first and second conveyances the grantee is described as"George 
Philip Duddra, of Falkner's Swamp, in the county of Philadelphia, and 
Province of Pennsylvania, Car})enter," and in the last as "George Philip 
Totherah, of the Count}^ of Philadelphia." Here are seen two of the 
many variations employed by the scriveners of that time in spelling the 
family name. Hans Neues (De Nyce, Nice, Xyce) was a large land- 
owner; he was not a dweller upon the lands he sold to George Philip 
Dodderer, but a resident of the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. Tra- 
dition avers that George Philip Dodderer was the first settlor on the banks 
of Society Rmi, and that the Indians were the only neighbors of himself 
and familv at the beginning. 

Tn the tax list of Frederick township, for 1734, (ieorge Philijt Dod- 
derer is returned as owner of 150 acres of land. 

in the movements for the development of the newly settled country 
George Philip Dodderer took an active part. In March, 1725, he and two 
of his sons signed a petition to the County Court at Philadelphia, praying 
that the road recently laid out to the point on the Perkiomen Creek where 
afterwards Penny packer's Mills stood (now Schwenksville) be extended 
to the northern end of Sprogell's tract, where George \A'anner's mill stood 
on Swamp Creek. Their signatures were written, Georg filil> Dodderer, 
Hironimus Doderer, and Michell Doderer. hi March 1731, Georg Philib 



10 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Dodderer and his son, Hanns Michell Doderer, were among the petitioners 
for the erection of Frederick township. 

By act of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 19, 1739, 
confirmed by the King in Council, May 12, 1740, George Philip Dotterer 
became a naturalized subject of Great Britain. 

A short time before his death, George Philip Dodderer made his will. 

Tt was in these words: 

HIS WILL. 

Ill the iiaiiR' of (iod Allien the 19t day of October in the year of our Lord One 
thou.sand seven hundred and forty one I George Philip Doderer of Frederick Town- 
ship in the County of Philadelphia and province of Pennsylvania, husbandman, 
being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto 
God Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is 
appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testa- 
ment that is to say principally and first of all I give and commend my soul into the 
hands of God that gave it, and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be 
buryed in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors 
nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by 
the mighty power of God and as touching such Wordly Estate Wherewith it hath 
pleased God to bless me in this Life I give and devise and dispose of the same in the 
loUowing manner and form Imprimus it is my W^ill and I do order that in the first 
place all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied. Item I give and 
bequeath unto Uronica my beloved wife the house wherein I now do dwell with all 
the moveable goods, cash, dues and demands Whatsoever to me doth belong and 
the orchard with the land thereto belonging adjoining to the aforesaid house. The 
aforesaid cash dues and demands I do give to her, her heirs and assigns forever The 
house and movealiles orchard and land aforesaid I do give to her during her natural 
life the corn now cleaned & in straw belonging to me I give to her to do with the 
same as she chooses. Item, I give to my l)eloved youngest son Conrad Doderer All 
That my plantation with all the lands, houses, barn and outhouses as also the house 
orchard and land which I gave to my wife during her life to him his heirs and 
assigns forever in fee simple he the said Conrad my youngest son or his Heirs, 
Executors or Administrators paying to my other three Children and my Children's 
Children hereafter named, that is to say to my eldest son Michael Dodderer the full 
sum of Thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pense lawful money of Pennsyl- 
vania or to his heirs or assigns t« be paid in manner following, That is to say Ten 
l>ounds thereof to be paid within one month's time after mine and mv wife's death 
and Ten pounds within one year next after tliat and Thirteen pounds six shillings 
and eight pence within one year next after the aforesaid two years and unto my son 
Barruiit Dodderer likewise he the said Conrad shall pay Thirty three pounds six 
shillings and eight pence in manner following, that is to say Ten pounds within 
three years next after my and my wife's death and Ten pounds within five years 
after their said death and thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence within 
seven years after their said death, and unto my daughter Anna he the said Conrad 
shall pay the full sum of Sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid 
in two equal jjayments Eight pounds six shillings and eight pence within five years 
after their said death and the remainder within six years after their said death, and 
he the said Conrad shall pay or cause to be paid unto my daugther Anna her children 
which she had by her first husband the full sum of Sixteen pounds thirteen 
shillings and eight pence when the youngest of the said children is at the age of 
twenty one years, and the said ('onrad shall pay or cause to be paid unto my Grand 



("hiklri'ii N'ruiiL- ainl A>.Miey tlu- lull sum of Thirty tlircc pnuufls six shillings and 
eight pence, that is to say unto Vrone ninetxH'u ])onnils three shillings and four 
pence and unto the said Agues Fourteen pounds three shillings and four pence 
within ten years after the death of the testator and his wife, and the said Conrad 
shall pay unto uiy grand children that is to say my daughter Barbara's children the 
full sum of Thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence when the youngest 
shall be at the age of Kighteen yeai-s or within three months after. I also will that 
my said son Oonrad shall pay yearly and every year during the life of my wife 
aforesaid Twenty shillings in Cash and deliver unto her yearly eight bushels of 
wheat and four bushels rye and thirty pounds butter and deliver her firewood during 
her life and keep and winter one cow and sheds for her, also during her life further- 
more 1 will that if my .Son Conrad should decease before the legacies of the grand- 
children aforementioned be paid that then they shall tarry for the same until the 
said Conrad's children shall be able to pay the same or cause to be paid. Item, I 
give unto my son aforesaid all the moveable goods after my wife's death. 

Lastly, I do make and ordain my Sons Michael Dodderer and Barrant Dodderer 
to be my only and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do 
hereV)y utterly disallow, revoke and disannull all and every other former Testa- 
ment, Wills, Legacies and P^xecutors by me in any ways before this time named, 
willed and Itequeathed. Ratifying and Ccnitirming this and no other to be my Last 
Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
the day and year al>ove written. 

(JF.OTKi PHILIB DODDKHKK. 




SigiiL'il, scaU'd, publisht'd, pronounced and declareil by the said Testator as his 
l^ast Will ami Testament in the presence of the subscribers. 
( N'lz' ) PniMP IL\Nx. 
.b)iiN Nyck. 

rhiladelphia Decendjer the first 1741 there personally appeared Philip Hann 
and John Xyce the witnesses to the within written will and on their solemn affir- 
mation according to law did declare they saw and heard George Philip Dodderer the 
testator within named sign, seal, publish and declare they saw and heard to be his 
last AVill and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind, mem- 
ory and understanding to the best of their knowledge. 
Coram. PET: p:yANS: KEG: (JENJ-l-. 

Be it remembereil, That on the first day of December 1741. The Last Will and 
Testament of George Philip Dodderer deceased was proved in due form of law and 
proljate and I>etters Testamentary were granted unto Michael Doddei'er and Barrant 
Dodderer the two Executors in the said Will named, They being first sworn well 
and truly to administer the said dec'd's Estate and to bring a true and perfect Inv-*' 
thereof into the Regist. (lenll' Office at Philadel])hia, at or before the first day of 
.lanuaiy next and a just and true account where thereunto lawfully reg''. Given 
under the seal of the said Ofiice. P: PET: EVANS: R: G. 

An inventory and appraisement of liis real and poi'sonnl jinipcrtv was 
ni;iil<- l)y two of his neio-hbois, as follows: 

INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT. 

.V trew and Parfect Invautory of the Estate of George Pliillip Doilderer, of 
fredi-ick Township in Philadelj)hia County Deceased the 6 day of November A: D: 
1741. he not long before his Death Made his Last Will and Testament which was 
Proved before Mis'' Peter Evans, Register Ginral at Philad' on tlie first Day of 
l)ecendK-r Last Past. 



Tniised thf 12 Day of December 1741 liy 
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To Apparel 

To Booiis 

To 2 Sadies one bridle and one hoi*se 

To one Grenstone and 3 Saws 

To 4 Shovels 5 hoes 2 hooks and 3 forks 

To 3 Siths one bell 2 hammers 

and one anvil 
To 5 Pitching axes 2 brod axes and 

one hachitt 
To one })ell one hammer one Gondge 

and one trule one ax 10 

To one half bushel Mall Rings 

3 Wedge one hatchet one ads 
To 6 ogres 3 chisels one Rasp 
To one hammer Prushers chisel bell 

2 Droying Knifs c*t Saw- 
To 4 Sickels and old Iren 
To 3 Ridels one straw knife one 

pot hangers and two potts 
To 5 Pans one Skimmer and one 

flesh fork 
To puter and Earthin Ware 
To one Churn 5 pals and 8 Wooden 

Trenshers 
To 3 tu])S 2 barls and 5 Kadgs 
To 2 Drusers 22 sacks and 10 bushels 

Oats 2 13 6 

To 2 hodgeds one Chest one Spinning 

Wheal & 3 baskits 13 

To 2 guns one Sword one tanckard 

one Cup & botle 1 .5 q 

To one AVip Saw one looking Glass and 

one lamp »fc lantron 1 6 

To 2 Chests and one Cow 2 \r, 

To 80 bushels of (too Wheat 12 

To 30 bushels of Gats 2 T) 

To Cash bonds and Demands 58 15 q 

To the Plantation containing 250 acres 

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Veronica Dodderer, the widow of George Philiij Dodderer, survixed 
her husband less than eleven years. She made a will on the 8th of June, 
1751. It was written in German. It was translated as follows: 



GEORGE PITTLTP DODDERER. 13 

THE WIDOW'S WILL. 

Whereas I Verony Doderer now prety old and tlie substance of my tiody very 
nmcli decaiiig not noing whether I have on other day in tliis work! to hve but am 
yet in perfect mind c^ memoi-y thanks be unto <iod tlierefore and in his merciful! 
Hands I recommend my body and soul and 1 am very desireous to have peace an)ong 
my children after my death with my little worldly Estate I leave behind me for that 
leason I witness hereby with my whole mind that is to say first of all it is my Will that 
my son Conrad shall keep all that wliich he was indel)ted to me to liimself and pay 
Udthing to the rest of my children of tliat he was Indebted to me. Secimdiy my 
sons wife .\nna Maria Doterer shall have one of my bigest pieces of (iold and that 
rirst of all for her great kindnesses sht- did unto me, thirdly all the money c^t Bonds 
which I leave behind me after my Death shall the rest of my o Children, that is to 
say Michael and Bernhard and all the Childien nf my deceased Son and Daughter as 
also the Childien of my Daughr Anna shall be divided among them in eijual shares 
I .say it shall be divided in Hve parts and every one of my Children and as I have 
said their Children shall have a share when first my Sons Michael tS: Bernhard is 
paid for their Executors Charges which 1 heieby witness with my hand and siih- 
scribtion this 8th day of June 1751. her 

Henrich Antes. VEKO.NY X DODERER. 

P. Hannes Huebner. mark 

McCalls Mannor 9th December 1752, Then personally appeared John Heebner 
one of the witnesses to ye within Codicil c*t on bis oath did declare that he saw and 
heard Veronia Doderer widow the Testatrix therein named sign publish c*i: Declaie 
the same Codicil for and as her last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof 
she was of sound mind, memory and understanding to ye best of his knowledge and 
that Henry Antes the other Witness thereto did also subscribe his name as a Witness 
in presence of ct at ye request of ye Testatrix. Coram. 

JOHN CAMPBELL, by Authority from 
William I'lmnsted, Regr. Genl. 

Veronica Dodderer having omitted to name an executor in her ^\ill, 
Michael Dodderer, her son, was appointed administrator of her estate. 

William Plumstead, Regr. (4enl., (kc. 

To Michl. Dodderer Son of \'eronica Doilderer deed, 
(t reeling. 

Whereas the said Veronica Dodderer in her life time made a Certain writing or 
Codicil under her hand bearing date the Eighth day of June 1751, pin-porting her 
last Will and Testament (a true Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) but named no 
Executors thereof she the said deced having whilst she lived and at the time of her 
death divers good Rights and Credits within the said Province by means whereof 
the full disposition and power of Granting the Administration of all »)t singular the 
goods Rights and Credits which were of said deced, within the said Province and 
also the auditing the accounts Calculations and Reckonings of the said Admr. and 
the Probation and Approbation of the said Codicil to me manifestly known to belong. 
I desiring that the goods, rights and Credits which were of the said deced may be 
well and truly administered Do hereby Grant unto you the said Michael Doderer (in 
whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide) by the Tenor of these presents to 
administer the goods rights and credits which were of the said deced within the said 
Province and also to ask Collect, Levy, recover and receive the credits whatscu'ver 
of the said deced, which at ye time of her death were owing or to her in any way 
belong and to pay the debts in which the said deced stood obliged so far forth as the 
said goods. Rights and Credits will extend according to their Rate and Order of Law 
Especially of well and truly administering the goods, rights and Credits which were 



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14 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

of the said deced, and making a true and perfect inventory thereof and Exhibiting 
the same into ye Regr. (irenls. Office at Philadelphia at or before ye V)th day of Janu- 
ary next & rendering a true acct., calculation or reckoning of ye paid Adniinistratif)n 
at or before ye 10th day of December anno 1753 and I do by these pi-esents ordain 
Constitute & Depute you the said Michl. Dodderer Adniinr. of all and singular ye 
goods Rights and Credits of the said Deced. within the Limits aforesd, with the 
writing or Codicil aforesaid annexed, Saving harmless and forever indemnifying me 
and all other officers against all other persons whatsoever by reason of your adminis- 
tration aforesaid and saving to all others their Rights. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my liand and seal of office at Phila- 
delphia ve 9th day of December Anno 1752. 

19 WM. PLTTMSTEAD, K. GENL. 

The inventory of her estate was exhilnted, Mareli 2, 1753, as follows: 
Inventory of the Estate of \'eronica Dodderer, AV^idow, deceast 

Octor. 20th 1752. 
Impi'. Due by George Michael Coon "P Bond £.'.>0 

a year Interest thereof 1 H) 

Item a Note of George Timerman 14 

a years Interest thereof Iti 4 

Cash in her Chest in paper money £7 
a Moydor 2 

a pistole 1 

10 10 (i 
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this besides the p' gold I 
will'* to her daughter | 
Due to her by Barnabas Doderer 
Due to her by Michael Doderer 

Michael Dotterer, Admin''. 

The administrator rendered his account 2-")"' Feb-, 17o4. 
payments amounting to £60 2 10, leaving for distribution to the heirs 
£27 0. The disbursements were: 

Cash paid for Funeral Charges as f^ particular account 5 !(> 

trouble of Nursing and Attending the Deceased in her 

Sickness being twenty-two months 24 

Cash to John Campbell for the office fees 25 / and 15 / 

for his trouble 2 

D" for tiduble said Michael and Barnabas Doderer 

had in Managing their fathers Estate which said 
Verony Doderer his Widow has Ordered by lier 
Will to be paid now out of the Estate 
Conunissions on £87 Inventory («. 10 ^ Ct. 

The distribution of £27 was made 
To Michael Doderer for his i of 27£ 
To Barnabas Doderer for his i 
To Eronimus (Catharina crossed out) Doderer deceast 

his children i 
To Barbara Markel I deceast her Children i 
To Ann (iurr her Children by 

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A transcript of adeclaration signed hy the tlircc l)n)tliers is given 
below. It is written on the back of their motlier's will. It bears distinctly 
tlie neatly written autograph of each son, and is remarkable for the varia- 
tion in tlie spelling of the family name: 

DECLARATION. 
On the 7th Decern"" 17o3 Micliael Doderer and Barnabas Doderer Executoi-s of tlie 
last Will and Testament of Oeorge I'hillip Doderer their fatlu'r d(>ceast Did Declare 
that Conform and in Obedience to the said Will of their said father deceast They 
Divided the Goods of their fathers Estate witiiout Sale in three Eqnall parts Between 
them and Conrad Doderer their Brother, Being snch Goods as Veronica Doderer the 
widow did not Stand in need of and this was don abont a month or five Weeks aftei 
their fathers death exactly conform to the Testators Will and for which they did not 
Charge any Commission at the time. 

'^i id) el X)otterer 

Coram BARNABAS DODDERER 

.In" Campbell CONRAD DIDDARER 

At the bottom of the foregoing declaration is written, without explan- 

atii)n, the following: 

3)44(14 Nach der Riich die gemach den 28 Nov 1752 bleib 

3 zu trey teill Einem die Sum von 14=13=04 

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CHURCH CONNECTION. 

George Philip Dodderer was attached to the Reformed Church brought 
here from Germany. In July, 1728, his name — George Philip Totterer — 
is one of those signed to a letter to the Reformed Chui'ch authorities at New 
York asking for the ordination of John Philip Bo'hm to the ministry and 
the legalization of his previous ministerial acts. He was then an officer 
of Falkner Swamp Reformed congregation. This request, after conference 
between the New York and Holland chmxh officers, was complied with, 
at New York, November 23, 1729. But soon after this he withdrew his 
adherence to Rev. Mr. Boehm. Apparently he joined the small congrega- 
tion at Skippack who accepted as their i)astor Rev. George Michael Weiss, 
the opponent of John Pliilip Boehm. May 10, 1730, he signed, with 
others, a petition to the Holland authorities, asking for the nullification 
of the recent ordination of Mr. Bwhrn. On the 19th of May, 1730, as an 



16 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

elder of the Skippack congregation, he signed a paper authorizing Rev. 

George Michael Weiss and Elder Jacob Reiff to proceed to Elurope to 

collect money for the Reformed congregations in Pennsylvania. The 

sending of these two men to Europe for the purpose stated was contrary 

to the wishes of Mr. Bcehm. About the year 1736, the name George 

Philip Dotder appears in a list of heads of families belonging to the New 

Goshenhoppen Reformed congregation, then having for its pastor Rev. 

John Henry Gcetschy. 

DEED FOR FIKyT LAND PrKCHASE. 

This Indenture, Made tlie twenty second day of December in the year of our 
Lord One thousand seven hundred and twenty two, between Hans Newes of the 
Northern Liberties of the C'lty of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, 
Yeoman, and Yonecan his wife of the one part. And George Philip Duddra ol 
Falkners Swamp in the County of Philadelphia in the said Province, Carpenter, of 
the other part. Witnesseth, That the said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife for 
and in consideration of the sum of Twenty one pounds lawful monej' of America to 
them in hand paid by the said George Philip Duddia at and before the ensealing 
and delivery iiereof the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and thereof do 
acquit and forever dischaige the said ( ieorge Philip Duddra his hen-s and assigns by 
tliesc presents, have granted, bargained, sdld, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed, and 
by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff and confirni unto the said 
George Philip Duddra. A Certain Tract or piece of land situate in the same county. 
Beginning at a post being a corner of James Steel's land thence by the same South 
east Eight}' perches to a post, thence by the land of Henry Grubb North east Two 
hundred perclies to a small White Oak sapling thence by other land of the said 
Hans Newes North west eigiity perches to a post, tlience by the said Newes' land 
South West Two liundred perclies to the place of beginning. Containing One hundred 
acres. Together also with all and singular the ways, woods, underwoods, waters, 
water-courses, meadows, swamps, rights, liberties, pnviledges, improvements, here- 
ditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise apper- 
taining, and the reveisioii and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues 
and profits thereof. To have and to hold the said tract or piece of land, heredita- 
ments and i)remises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said George 
Philip Duddra his heirs and assigns. To the only proper use and behoof of the, said 
George Philip Duddra his heirs and assigns forever Under the yearly Quit Rent 
hereafter accrucing for the same to the Chief Lord of the Fee thereof. And the 
said Hans Newes and his lieirs the said Tract or piece of land, hereditaments and 
premises herel:)y granted or mentioned to be granted with the appurtenances unto 
the said (ieorge Philip Duddra his heirs and assigns against him the said Hans 
Newes and Yonecan his wife his heirs and assigns, and against all and every other 
person and persons wiiatsoever shall and will Warrant and forever Defend by these 
presents. .\nd the said Hans Newes for himself his lieiis, executors and adminis- 
tratois doth covenant promise and grant to and witii the said (ieorge Pliilip Duddra 
his heirs and assigns by tliese presents in manner following, that is to say, that lie 
the said Hans Newes at the time of the sealing and delivery of this present Inden- 
ture is the true, sole, and lawful owner and proprietor of tlie said tract or piece of 
land, hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned to be granted with 
the appurtenances, and is lawfully rightfully and absolutely seized thereof and 
every part anil parcel thereof as of a good sure, absolute and indefeasible Elstate of 
Inheritance in fee simple, without any condition, contingent proviso, limitation or 
other restraint matter or thing whatsoever to alter defeat or determine the same. 
And that he the said Hans Newes will continue so seized of the demises and of 
every jiart tliereof until a good sure perfect and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in 
fee simplt> sliall be thereof vested in the said (ieorge Philip Duddra his heirs and 
assigns according to the purport and true meanihg of these presents. And that free 
and clear and freely and clearly acquitted and discharged of and from all and all manner 
of former and other gifts, grants, bargains, sales,Leases,I\lortgages,.Toyntures, Dowers, 
Wills. Intails, Annuities, Rents, Arrearages of Rent, Titles, Charges and Incum- 
brances whatsoever (The (^uit Rent aforesaid and as hereafter accnieing only ex- 
cepted and ]n-eferred) And that he the said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife and 
his heirs and all and every other person and persons whatsoever having or lawfully 



GEORGE PIT 1 1.1 1' DODDEHKR. 17 

claiiiiinji or tliiit slnill or may at any tiinr or tiiiu's lnTcal'UT so lia\c oi- (.■laiin any 
Kstati', Ki^lii Title or Interes^t of in or to tlie Troinist's or any part or parcel tliereof 
Sliall and will at any tinie or tinu'j; hereaftiM- upon the reasonable reipiest cost and 
charges in law of the said (leorge Phili]) Hnddra his heirs or assigns make execnte 
and acknowledge or cause so to be all and every such further and other reasonalile 
Act and Acts, Deed or Deeds, Devise or Devises in law whatsoever fcjr the further 
and better assurance and confirmation of the said Tract or ])iece of land, heredita- 
ments and premises hereby grantt'tl or mentioned to be granted with the appurie- 
nauces unto the said George Philip Duddra his heirs and assigns as by him or them 
or by his or their council learned in tlie Law shall be reasonably devised, advised 
or retjuired. 

In Witness Whereof, the said i)arties to these presents have interchangeably set 
their iiands and seals, dated the day and year above written. 
Sealed and Delivered in the 



presence of us. By the said 

Hans Newes i*c Yonecan his 

wife. 

(,'ha. ( )sborne 

Jos. Wat.son 



HANS .\i;\\KS [ Seal ^ 



her ' ■ 

YONKCAX X -NKWES | Seal ^ 
mark 



Be it Remembered, That the twenty second day of I)ecember .\nno Domini One 
thousand seven hundred and twenty two at Philadelphia, before me Pobert Assheton 
one of the Justices of the Peace of the city and county of I'hiladelphia came the 
within named Hans Newes in his proper person and Ijiought this writing or convey- 
ance which he acknowledged to be his deed and desired that tlie same may be In- 
rolled or Recorded as his deed according to an Act of A.ssenibly of this Province 
lately made and provided. In Witne.«s Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
seal the day and year above written. 

ROB. ASSHETON | Seal ^ 

Recorded the 22nd day of December 1722. Deed Book F 3, page 380. 

DEED FOR SECOND LAND PTRCHASE. 

This Indenture, Made the third day of February in the year of our Lord One 
thousand seven hundred and twenty five. Between Hans Newes of the Northern 
Liberties of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and 
Yonecan his wife of the one part, Aiul (ieorge Philip Duddra of Filkner's Swamp in 
the County of Philadelphia in the said Province, Carpenter of the other part. Wit- 
nesseth, that the said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife for and in consideration of 
the sum of Sixteen pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence, lawful money of Penn- 
sylvania to them in hand paid by the said (ieorge Philip Duddra, at (»r before the 
sealing or delivering hereof, the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and 
thereof do acquit and forever discharge, the said (ieorge Philip Duddra h.is heirs 
and assigns bj' these presents Have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, 
released and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, 
release and confirm unto the said (ieorge Phili]) Duddra (in his actual possession 
and seizen now being by force and virtue of a bargain and sale unto him made by 
tiie said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife for the term of one year from the day 
next before the day of the date thereof by Indenture bearing date the day next 
before the day of the date hereof made between the same parties as these presents, 
and by force and virtue of the statutes made for transferring of uses into po.wsessioii ) 
and to his; heirs and assigns. 

A certain tract or parcel of land situated in the said counly of Philaddiihia. 
I'x'ginning at a white oak marked for a corner, thence northwi-st by vacant land 
ninety eight perches to a post by a corner of Michael Dinklra's land thence by the 
same and John Newes land southwest Two hundred and forty six perches to a post 
by a corner of John Newe's land thence by the same land South east eighteen 
perches to a post at a corner of other land of said (ieorge Philip Duddra, thence by 
the same north east two hundred perches to another corner of his other land, thence 
by the same South east Eighty perches, thence by vacant land north east forty six 
perches to the place of beginning. Containing fifty acres. Together with all and 
singular the ways, wood, waters, water-courses, fishings, fowlings, hawkings, rights. 



18 THE DOTTERER FAiNIILY. 

liberties, privileges, iiiiprovemeiitw, liereditainents and appurtenances whatsoever 
thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. And the reversion and reversions, 
remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof. To have and to hold 
the said piece of land, hereditaments and premises hereby granted, or mentioned to 
be granted with the appurtenances unto the said George Philip Duddra his heirs 
and assigns, to the imly proper use and behoof of the said George Philip Duddra, 
his heirs and assigns forever. I'uder the j'early Quit Rent hereafter accruing for 
the hereby granted premises to the Chief Lord of the fee thereof. And tlie said 
Hans Newes and his heirs the said tract or piece of land, hereditaments and prem- 
ises hereby granted or mentioned to be granted with the appurtenances unto the 
said George Philip Duddra his iieirs and assigns against them the said Hans Newes 
and Yonecan his wife and liis heirs, and against all and every other person whatso- 
ever, shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. And the said 
Hans Newes for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, dolh covenant, 
l)roinise and grant to and witii the said Geor'ge Phillips Duddra, his heirs and 
assigns by these presents. In maiuier following, That is to say, That he the said 
Hans Newes, now at tlie time of the sealing and delivering of these presents, Inden- 
ture of lease or release, is the true sole and lawful owner and proprietor of the said 
tract or piece of laud, herecfitaments and premises, have granted or uientioned to be 
granted with the appurtenances and is lawfully, rightfully and absolutely seized 
thereof and of every part and parcel thereof as of a good, sure, absolute and inde- 
feasible estate of inheritance in fee simple and without any condition, contingent 
proviso, limitation or otiier restraint matter or thing whatsoever to alter defeat or 
determine tlie same. And tliat lie the said Hans Newes will continue so seized of 
the premises and of every part and parcel thereof until a good sure, perfect and 
indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in fee simple shall be thereof vested in the said 
(ieorge Philip Duddra his heirs and assigns, according to the purport and true meaning 
of these prouiises, and that free, and clear and freel>' and clearly acquitted and 
discharged of and from all and all manner of former :uid other gifts, grants, bar- 
gains, sales, leases, dowers, uiortgages, injunctions, Wills, lutails, annuities, rents, 
arrearages of rents. Titles, Charges and Incuuibrances whatsoever (The quit rent 
aforesaid as hereafter accruing only excepted and preferred) and that the said Hans 
Newes and Yonecan his wife and bis heirs and all and evei^^' other person and 
persons whatsoever having or lawfully claiming or that shall or may at any time or 
times hereafter so have or claim any estate, right, title, interest of, in, or to the 
premises or any part or parcel thereof, shall and will at any time or times hereafter 
upon the reasonable recjuest, cost and charges in law of the said (Tcorge Philip 
Duddra, his heirs or assigns make execute and acknowledge or cause so to be, all and 
every such further and othei- reasonable act and acts. Deed or Deeds Devise or 
Devises in law whatsoever for the further and better assurance and confirnjation of 
the said tract or jnece of land, Hereditaments and premi.ses hereby granted oi' men- 
tioned to be granted with the appurtenances unto the said George Philip Duddra, 
his heirs and assigns, as by him or them or by his or their counsel learned in the 
law shall be reasonably devised, advised, or required. 

In Witness Whereof, the said parties to these jiri'sents have interchangeably set 
their hands and seals hereunto, Dated the day ami year first above written. 

Sealed & Delivered in the | 

presence of | j^ ^.., ^j^^vES 

t has. Brockden }- 

Ic. Watson | 

Chas. Osbourn j 

her 




YONECAN X NEWES | ^eai. 



mark > — .^ — 

Indorsement. Memo. That on the seventh day of Feby. A. D. 1725, before me 
Thos. Lawrence one of the Justices of tlie Peace for the city and county of Philadel- 
phia, came Clias. Brockden & Chas. t)sbourn, and on their solenni alfirmations did 
declare and say thai they were personally present antl saw the within named Hans 
Newes & Yonecan liis wife seal and as their act and deed deliver the writing or con- 
veyance, and that their names subscribed as witnesses are of their own hands writ- 
ing respectively as witnesseth my hand and seal. 

THOMAS LAWKENCE 
Recorded the 22nd February A. D. 1725. 




GEORGE PHILIP DODDEREH. 19 

DEED OF CONFIRMATION FOR FIRST AND SECOND LAND ITRCHASES. 

John IVnn, Thomas Penn aiul IJicliaid l\'nn, Esquires, tiur and absolute Pro- 
prietaries and Governors in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania antl the Counties 
of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware. 

To all unto whom these Presents shall come, (ireeting: 

Whereas, in and by Deeds indented of Lease and Release bearing Date respec- 
tively the eleventh and twelfth days of October in the year of our Lord ItJSl for tlie 
consideration therein mentioned our late Father, William Penn Esq'' then Proprie- 
tary and Oovernor in Chief of our said Province did grant and release unto William 
Bacon of the INIidle Temple (Ten' the ([uantity of live thousand ai'res of Land to be 
surveyed within our said Province To Hold to Iiim his Heirs and Assigns forever 
Under the yearly Quitrent of one shilling (sterling) for every hundred acres of the 
same And Whereas in and by other Deeds of Lease and Release bearing date the 
nineteenth and twentieth days of February Anno 1718 For the consitleration therein 
mentioned he the said William Bacon did grant and release the same (juantity of Five 
thousand acres of Land and premises witii the ap]iurtenances unto Hum])liry Murry 
and John Budd then of the City of Philadelphia To Hold to lliem their iieirs and 
assignees for ever. And to the end and purpose tiiat the said quantity of Land might 
be accordingly surveyed two several Warrants at the instance and request of the saitl 
Humphry Murray and John Budd were granted by the late Connnissioners of Prop- 
erty under our lesser seal bearing date respectively the fifth day of the tliird month 
and the twenty eighth day of the sixth ujonth Anno 1711) And the said Humphry 
Murry and John Budd having by like Deeds of Lease and Release of the twenty-liltli 
and twenty-sixth days of October Anno 1720 granted unto Hans Newes then of the 
Northern Liberties of Phil" since deceased the (piantity of seven hundred twenty-five 
acres part of the said live thousand acres of Land the same was surveyetl and laid 
out unto the said Hans Newes in two several tracts one of live hundred the otlu'r 
two hundred twenty five acres on the second and tliird days of November then next 
ensuing lying near the Branches of Parkeawming Creek in the County of Philadel- 
phia as in and by the surveys thereof remaining in our Survevor Generals Office may 
appear And Whereas in and by two certain Deeds the one bearing date tlie twenty 
second day of December 1722 and the other the fourth day of February 172") he the 
said Hans Newes and lonecan al*' Yonecan his Wife For the consideration therein 
respectively mentioned did grant and convey unto George Philip Tdtlierah al' Dud- 
dera his heirs and assigns the quantitj^ of one hundred and fifty acres of tlie tract of 
Five Hundred acres surveyed as aforesaid being since circumscribed within the 
bounds of Fredericks Township Beginning at a White Oak in a line of the said 
George Philip Totherah' s other land thence by land now or late of Henry Grubb 
south west two hundred forty six perches to a corner of the land late of James Steel 
then north west ninety eight perches part thereof by the land last mentioned and 
part by land of John Newes thence by the said John Newes Land and land of Michael 
Totherah North East two hundi-ed forty six pei'ches to a line of the said George 
Philip Totherah's other land thence by the same South East ninety eight perches to 
the place of beginning Containing one hundred and fifty acres as in and by tlie sur- 
vey and division of the same remaining in our Surveyor (jeneral's Office and from 
thence certified into our Secretarys Office may appear. 

Now at the in.stance and request of the said George Philip Totherah that we 
would be pleased to grant him a confirmation of the said one hundred ami fifty 
acres of Land according to the situation and survey afores'\ Know Ye, That in con- 
sideration of the several giants matters and things iK-icin b(>fore recited, and for the 
Yearly Quit-Rent hereinafter mentioned and reserved. We have given, granted, 
released and confirmed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succc>ssors. Do 
give, grant, release and confirm unto the said George Philip Totherah and his heirs 
the said one hundred and fifty acres of land, as the same is now set forth, bounded 
and limited as aforesaid; witii all Klines, Minerals, (Quarries, Meadows, ^Marshes, 
Savannahs, Swamps, Cripi)les, Woods, Cnderwootls, Timber and Trees, Ways, 
Waters, Water-courses, Liberties, Profits, Commodities, .Vdvantages, Hereditaments, 
and Appurtenances wliatsoever to the said one hundred and fifty acres <jf lanil 
belonging or in any wise appertaining and lying within the bounds and limits afore- 
said, (all Royal mines cmly excepted and hereby reserved,) and also free leave, 
right and liberty to and for the said (ieorge Phili]i Totherah his heirs and assigns, to 
hawk, hunt, fish and fowl, in and u])on the heri'by granted laiul and premises or 
upon any part thereof; To Have and to Hold the said one hundretl and fifty acres of 
land and premises hereby granted, (except before excepted,) with their appurte- 
nances unto tlie said George IMiilip Totherah his heirs and assigns, To the only use 



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20 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

and behoof of tlie said George Philip Totherali his heirs and assigns forever: To be 
holden of us, our heirs and successors, Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, as of our 
Manor of Springsbury in the County of Philadelphia aforesaid, in free and common 
socage by fealty only, in lien of all other services, Yielding and Paying therefor 
yearly unto us, our heirs and successors, at the City of Philadelphia, at or upon the 
first day of March in every year, from the first day of this instant March, one 
English silver shilling for the one hundred acres, and in proportion for the fifty 
acres, or value thereof in coin-current, according as the exchange shall then be 
between our said province and the city of London, to such person or persons as shall, 
from time to time, be apiwinted to receive the same. And in case of non-payment 
thereof within ninety days next after the same shall become due, that then it shall 
and may be lawful for us, our heirs and successors, our and their receiver or 
receivers, into and upon the hereby granted land and premises to re-enter, and the 
same to hold and possess until the Quit-rent, antl all the arrears thereof, together 
with the charges accruing by means of such non-payment and re-entry aforesaid, 
be fully paid and discharged. 

In Witness Whereof, tlie said Thomas Peiin by virtue of the powers and author- 
ities to him granted by the said John and Richard I'erin and of his own right caused 
the Great Seal of the said province to be hereunto athxed at Philadelphia, this 
twenty first day of March Anno D" 17o6 the tenth year of the reign of King George 
the Second over Great Britain, <kc., and the nineteenth year of our Government. 

THO. PENN |l. s. I 

-.- Recorded 22" May 1737. 

PATENT FOR THIRD LAND PI'RCHASE. 

John Penn, Thomas Penn and Richard Peun, Esquires, true and absolute Pro- 
prietaries and (Tovernors in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and Counties of 
Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware. 

To all unto whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: 

Whereas, in pursuance and by virtue of a warrant under our lesser seal bearing 
date the twenty-ninth day of May in the year of Our Lord I7;)4 there was surveyed 
on the sixtli day of November then next following unto George Philip Tt)therah of 
the County of Philadelphia a certain tract of land situate in Frederick Township in 
the said County Beginning at a White Oak at a Corner of the said George Philip 
Totherah's other land and extending thence by the same and by Land of Michael 
Totherah North West one hundred eighty nine perches to a post thence by vacant 
land North East ninety jierches to a post and South East one hundred eighty nine 
perches to a post in a line of George Trumbauers land thence by the same and by 
vacant land South West ninety perches to the place of beginning containing one 
hundred acres and the allowance of six acres for Roads and Highways as in and by 
the survey thereof remaining in our Surveyor Generals Office and from them certi- 
fied into our Secretaries Office may appear. 

Now at the instance and request of tlie said George Philip Totherah that we 
would be pleased to grant him a confirmation of the same: Know Ye, That in con- 
sideration of the sum of fifteen pounds ten siiillings lawful money of Pennsylvania, 
to our use, paid by the said George Philip Totherah the receipt whereof we hereby 
acknowledge and thereof do acquit and forever discharge the said George Philip 
Totlierah his heirs and assigns, by these presents, and also of the Yearly Quit-ient 
hereinafter mentioned and reserved. We have given, granted, released and confirm- 
ed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succtissors. Do give, grant, release 
and confirm unto the said George Philip Totherah his heirs, tlie said one hundred 
acres of land, as the same is now set forth, bounded and limited as aforesaid; with 
all Mines, Minerals, Quarries, Meadows, Marshes, Savannahs, Swamps, Cripples, 
Woods, Underwoods, Timber and Trees, Ways, Water, AVater-courses, Liberties, 
Profits, Commodities, Advantages, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances whatsoever 
to the said one hundred acres of land belonging or in any wise appertaining and 
lying within the bounds and limits aforesaid, (Three full and clear fifth parts of all 
Royal mines, free fiom all deductions and reprisals for digging and refining the 
same; and also one-tifth part of the ore of all other mines, delivered at the pit's 
mouth, only excepted and hereby reserved,) and al.so free leave, right and liberty to 
and for the said George Philip Totlierah his heirs and assigns, to liawk, hunt, fish 
and fowl, in and upon the hereby granted land and premises or upon any part 
thereof; To Have and to Hold the said one hundred acres of land and premises 



J 



GEORGE PHILIP DODDERER. 



21 



hereby gnuited, (except as before excepted,) witli tlu-ir appurtenances untn tlie said 
George Philip Totlierah liis heirs and assigns, To the only use and behoof of tlie 
said George Phihp Totherah his heirs and assigns forever: To be holden of us, our 
heirs and successors, Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, as of our Manor of Springetsbury 
in the County aforesaid, in free and coniinon socage by fealty only, in lieu of all 
other services, Yielding and Paying tlierefor yearly to us, our heirs and successors, 
at the City of Philadelpiiia in the said county, at or upon the first day of ^hirch in 
every year, from the first day of this instant ]\Iarch, one half penny sterling for 
every acre of the same, or value thereof in coin-current, according as the exchange 
shalf then be between our said province and the city of London, to such person or 
persons as shall, from time to time, lie ap]iointed to receive the same. And in case 
of non-payment thereof witliiu ninety days n(>xt after the sauic shall become due, 
that then it shall and may be lawful for us, our heirs and successors, our and their 
receiver or receivers, into and upon the hereby granted land and premises to re- 
enter, and the same to hold and poss(>ss until the said Quit-rent, and all arrears 
thereof, together witli the charges accruing by means of such non-payment and 
re-entry, be fully paid and discharged. 

In Witness Whereof, the said Thomas Penn by virtue of the powers and author- 
ities to him granted by the said John and Richard Penn and of his own right hatii 
caused the Great Seal of the said province to be "hereunto affixed at Philadelphia, 
this twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- 
dred and thirty eight the twelfth year of the reign of King (leorge the Second, over 
(Treat Britain, etc., and the twenty-first year of our (iovernment. 



THO. PENN I L. s. I 

—■<-' Recorded August 1st, 1739. 
RELEASE OF CONRAD DUDDARER, RESIDCARY LEtiATEE. 
The heirs of George Phihji Dodderer released Ci)nrud Duddarer, re- 
siduary legatee, at various dates, as shown by the records, as follows: 

January 11, 1754. IMichael Dotterer, eldest son of George Philiji Dudciarer, late 
of Frederick t(nvnship, and legatee under the will of said George Philip Duddarer, re- 
leased Conrad Duddarer, resi(hiary legatee, upon receiving his share. 

The children of Hieronimus Doderer: June 16, 1764. Veronica Jost and Angnes 
Pittin children's children, and two of the legatees by will, of (jeorge Philip Dudilarer, 
released Conrad Duddarer, upon receiving from him £.33 6 8, in accordance with the 
will. Veronica was at this time the wife of Phillip Jost and Angnes the wife of 
Jost Bitting. 

To all People to whom these Presents shall come. Abraham Markli, Philip 
-Markli, Isaac ^Nlarckli, Veronica Schwenk, Rebekah Marckle, Christina Antes and 
Catharina Marckle, Cirand Children of the Daughter P>arl»ara to which a Legacie is 
given by the Testament and Last Will of (Jeorge Phillip Duddarer late of Friderick 
Township, in the county of Philadelphia Husbandman deceased sendeth (ireeting. 
Know ye that the said George Phillip Duddarer in and by his Testament and last 
Will l)earing date the nineteenth Day of October in the year 1741, Did (iive and 
•levise unto his youngest Son Conrad Duddarer his the Testator's Plantation with all 
the Lands Houses Baren and outhouses. As also a certain House Orchard and land 
. . . he the said Conrad, his heirs Executors or .Administrators paying . 
certain Legacies, that is to say To his Daughter Barbara Children the full Sum of 
thirty three Pounds six Shillings and eight pence. . . . Now know ye that the 
said Abraham ^Marckli, et al. . . . Doth hereby acknowledge to have had and 
received of and from the said Conrad Duddarer the aforesaid Legacy of thirty three 
Pounds six Shillings and Eight Pence. . . The Sixteenth Day of June in the 

year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty six. 



ABRAHAM MERKLE 
PHILIP MARKEL 
ISAAC MERCK LE 
FRONIGA SCHWENK 
GEORG SCHWENK 



[Seal] 
[Sk.xl] 
[Seal] 
[Ska I.] 

[Sk.vi.] 



lu'i- 

REBECK A R MARCKLI [Sk.m.] 

iiiMi'k 
li.-i- 
CHRISTINA C A ANTES [Sk.vl] 

mark 

WILLIAM ANTES [Seal] 

CATTARINA X MARCKLE [Seal] 
mark 



22 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Bernhard (Barnabas) Dodderer: Release by Barnabas Duddarer: 

To all People to whom these Presents shall come. BarnabasDuddarer, one of the 
Legatees of the Testament and Last Will of (Teorjje Phillip Duddarer, late of Fred- 
erick Township in the County of Philadelphia, Husbandman deceased Sendeth 
Greeting: Know Ye that the said (xeorge Phillip Duddarer in and by his Testament 
and last Will liearing date the nineteenth day of October in the year one thousand 
seven hundred fourty one, did give and devise unto his youngest son Conrad Dud- 
darer his the saiil Testators Plantation with all the Lands, Houses Barn & outhouses 
as also a certain House Orchard and Land which the Testator Ijefore in his said Will 
had given to the Testators Wife during her Life she being now deceast He the said 
(Conrad his Heirs Executors or Administrators jjaying unto the Testators other Chil- 
dren and Children's Children certain Legacies that is to say, to his Son Barnabas 
Duddarer the full Sum of thirty three Pounds six shillings and eight pence lawful 
Money of Pennsilvania in certain parts and acconling to certain Times of Payment 
in the said Last Will Si)ecifyet as in and by the said recited Will remaining "in the 
Register (jenerals Otfice at Philadelphia Relation being thereunto had appears. Now 
Know Ye that the said Barnabas Dudderer doth hereby acknowledge to have had 
and received of and from the said Conrad Duddarer the aforesaid Legacy of thirty- 
three Pounds six Shillings and eight pence. Therefore in Consideration whereof he 
the said Barnal)as Duddarer hatli Kemissed and Released And by these Presents doth 
Rends Release and fore Ever cjuit claim unto the said Conrad Duddarer his Heirs 
Executors and Administrators of and from the aforesaid Legacy and of and from all 
and all manner of Action and Actions and Cause and Causes of Actions fore or by 
Reason of the Premises or any Part or Parcell thereof. In Witness whereof the said 
Barnal)as Duddarer hath hereunto set his Hand and Seal the eight Day of November 
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred fifty four 1754. 

BERND DODDERER [Seal]. 

Sealed & Delivered in the presence of us: lislieth E. S. Smith. Friedrich Antes. 

Be it remembered that the eight Day of November Anno Dom. 1754 At Frederick 
township before me Henry Antes one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of 
Philadelphia came the within named Barnard Duddarer in his proper Persf)n and 
brought this writing or Release which he Acknowledges to l)e his Deed and desired 
that the same may l)e Recorded as his Deed acc(jrding to an Act of Assembly of this 
Province formerly made and provided. In Witnes whereof I have hereunto" Set my 
Hand and Seal the Dav and Year above written. 

HENRY ANTES [Seal]. 
Recorded :\V Decendi'' 1772. 

Anna Elizabetli Dodderer, the wife first, of Michael Zinmierman, and, second, of 
Jacob Kcerr (Kurr): .... 1762. Anna Kcerr, a daughter of George Philip 
Duddarer, and legatee by his will, released Conra<l Duddarer, upon his payment of 
£1H 8 4 in accordance with said will. 

Deed Geo. Zimmerman et aL To Conrad Duddarer. 

To all People to whom these Presents shall come. George Zimmerman Anna 
Elisal)eth Yunt and her husl>and Johannes Yunt Veronica Zimmerman Mary Cath- 
arina Hofman and her Hus))and John Hofman, the Grand Children & tow of there 
Husbands of the Daughter Anna, to which a Legacie is given by the Testament and 
Last Will of George Phillip Duddarer, late of Frederick Township in the County of 
Philadeljihia Husbandman deceased Sendeth (ireeting: Know ye that the said George 
Phillip Duddarer in and by his Testament and Last AVill bering date the ninteenth 
Day of October in the year one thousand seven Hundred forty one did give and 
devise unto his youngest Son Conrad Duddarer his the said Testator's Plantation with 
all the Lands Houses Baren & outhouses as also a certain House .Orchard and Land 
which the Testator l)efore in his said Will had given to the Testators Wife during her 
Life She being now deced. He the said Conrad his Heirs Executors or Administra- 
tors Paying unto the Testators other Children or Childrens Children a certain Lega- 
cies that is to say, to his Daughter Annas Childi-en the full Sum of Sixteen Pounds 
thirteen Shillings & four pence lawful Money of Pennsylvania when the youngest 
Child shall be at the Age of twenty one years that is the date of Payment in the said 
Last Will Specifyed as in and by the said recited Last Will remaining in the Register 
General's Office at Phila(leli)hia Relation being thereunto had appears. Now Know 
Ye that the said Geoi-ge Zimmerman Anna Elisabeth Yunt and .Tohannes Yunt her 



geor(;p: piiilii' i>()T)1)Ekkii. 23 

Ilnsliaiitl, Veronica Ziiiinu'iiuaii Mary C'liattaiina lidfiiiaii l<: .lulin llnluian lier 
Ilnsl)aii(l (loth hereby acknowit'dire to liave had ami receiveil ot and from the said 
Conrad Duddarer the al'ores' Lei^acy of Sixteen Ponnds thirteen ShiiUnjrs i<; four 
penee. Therefore in Consideration thereof the saiii (ieorire Zinnuerman Anna I^'dizaheth 
Ynnt t*c Johannes Ynnt Veronica Zimerman Mary ("attarina llofman her Hushanil. 
liath Keniised and Released and by these Presents Doth Keniise lieleas and fore Ever 
•init claim unto the said Conrad Duddarer his Heirs Executors <fe Adniinistrators of 
and from the af(n-esaid Lejracy and of and from all and all manner of action ami 
actions and Cause or Causes of Actions fore or by Reason of the Pri-mises or any i)art 
or iiarcell thereof. In Witness wereof the said (ieor.ire Zinnuerman Anna Elisalu'th 
Yunt and her Husband Johannes Yunt tt Veronica Zinnuerman t^ .Mary Chattarina 
Hofman & her Husband John Hofman hath hereunto set their Hands and Seals the 
thirty Hrst day of ^lay in the yi^ar of our Lord one thousand s(>ven hundred sixty 
two 17H2. 

(!E()R(; ZIMMER.MAN [Se.\l] 

his 

HANNES H JUND [Seal] 

msirk 
Iicr 
ANLISABET I J IN DIN [Se.m.] 

mark 

FRONICA X ZDDIERMAXX [Se.u.] 

mark 

JOHANNES HOFFMANN [Se.\i.] 

MARIA CADRINHOFFMANNIN[Se.\l] 

[Se.m.] Sealed and delivered in the presence of us, viz: 

MICH A EL D( )TT !•: It E R 

his 

MICHAEL -Al DIDDARER 

mark 

Be it Remembered that on the thirtieth day of August, A". D. 17H2 Before me 
John Trump one of the Justices of tlie Peace of the County of Philad'' came (George 
Zimmerman, one of the Signers and ackiKjwledge that he has Sealed ami Delivered 
this above written Releas and upon his Solemn Athrmation did declear and Say that 
he were personly apresand and saw the within named Seal and as their Act and 
Deed deliver this writing t)r Releas and that their Nams Suliscribed as Witnesses are 
of their own hands or marks wilting respectively As Witness my Han<l and Seal. 

JO-^' TRPMP [Se.\l]. 

Recorded 31" Decem'" 1772. 

FAJriLY TRADITIONS. 

In order that the unwritten reminiscences respecting the intercourse 

between the aborigines and om pioneer ancestor, as handed doAvn from 

father to son for more than a ct'utury and a lialf, may not l)e lost tt) 

posterity, they are here given, substantially as received from the late 

Michael Dotterer (born June 15, 1811; died December 13, 1899), who 

was reared in the vicinity: 

"Our immigrant ancestor" — der undt Dotterer, in the Clerman language, 'was 
the very first settler in this neighborhood. When he came there was no road, and 
he had no horse or wagon. All he had was one or two cows, a sow, and some prim- 
itive farming implements. He and liis fannly made their way as best they could, 
along Swamp Creek and Society Run througli the forest. lie located on the spot 
now (1902) occupied by the capacious barn on the farm of Eli (ieisinger. Here, on 
the west bank of the stream, under the spreading branches of a bnttonwood tree, 
he dug a sort of cave, and covered it with a rude roof of logs and branches, forming 
a hut, as a shelter for his family, lieside this Inunble abode a spring issued, and 
below the run, then much stronger than now, sp.irkled in the sunshine. The In- 
dians in the vicinity were friendly. They were in the habit of coming out of tht' 



24 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

deeper recesses of the forest to look at their pale-faced neighbors. They sometimes 
asked permission to take the settler's little children for the day to let them play 
with their own papooses; a request which our foreparents feared to grant yet dared 
not refuse. The natives cared for the little palefaces the same as for their own off- 
spring. They had a way of fastening the children to branches of trees bent down 
for the purpose, and swinging them to and fro in the air. They fed their children 
with food prepared in a small wooden trough, carved out of a part of the trunk of a 
tree; and the white children were fed the same. What this food was composed of 
our people did not know; but it was harmless. At the close of day the children 
were brought back, unharmed, to their parents, and no instance is handed down of 
bad faith on the part of the natives. 

"The Dodderers had several pigs, which were objects of much curiosity to the 
Indians, who had never before seen any. They came down daily to the settler's 
clearing, bringing with them acorns for the sow and her family. To gain the good- 
will of his savage neighbors, our ancestor thought it politic to present them with a 
pig, which they carried off with delight. One day, Father Dotterer thought he 
would go up into the forest and see how the Indians were living. He found, to his 
surprise, the scjuaw seated on the gi'ound in the sun nursing both her papoose and 
the pig, the child looking distrustfully over at its rival, but the pig quite contented 
in its adopted mother's lap. 

"At this early date the nearest grist mill was on the AVissahickon, some thirty 
miles away. The settlers were in the habit of sending to the mill the Indians, who 
went over the ground very rapidly. For a piece of tobacco, they would carry a bag 
of grain to the mill, starting in the evening, and returning with the meal the 
following morning." 

KEFEKENCES. 

John Philip Bd'hm. See Historical Notes relating to the Pennsylvania Reform- 
ed C'hurch, Volume One, page 86. 

Falkner vSwamp Reforuied Church. See Historical Notes relating to the Penn- 
sylvania Reforiried Church, Volume One, page 86. 

Quit Rents paid by George Philip Totherah (Dotterer). See Perkiomen Region, 
Volume One, page 141, and page 151; also, Volume Three, page 80. 

Falkner Swamp. See Perkiomen Region, A'olume One, pages 5, 37, 67. 

Goshenhoppen. See Perkiomen Region, A'olume One, page 64. 

Frederick Township. See History of Montgomery Countv, edited by Theodore 
W. Bean, 1884, page 8:51. 



2. MICHAEL DOTTERER^ (George Phili]) Dodderer'). Born in 
Europe in May, 1698; married, in Pennsylvania, Anna Maria Fischer; 
died, in April, 1786; buried, in BertoUst's burying ground, Frederick 
township, Montgomery county. Pa., April 7, 1786, aged eighty-seven 
years, eleven months and several flays. Anna Maria Fischer, daughter of 
Jacob and Sophia Elisabetha Fischer, of New Goshenhoppen, Pa., was 
born in Freinsheim, in the Palatinate of the Rhine; died in January, 1781; 
buried in a private graveyard on the farm of Zacharias Nyce, now known 
as Bertolet's l)urying ground, January 21, 1781. Children: 

8. Anna Sophia Dotterer', born March 5, 1726. 

9. Anna Veronica Dotterer', born September o, 1727. 

10. George Philip Dotterer'', l)orn August 30, 1729. 

11. Conrad Dotterer', born May 10, 1781. 

12. Maria Margaretha Dotterer'', l)orn June 27, 17.")o. 

13. Michael Dotterer', born October 31, 173o. 

14. Jacob Dotterer% born July 4, 1737. 

15. Dotterer^, a son, born January 22, 1739; died in infancy. 

16. John Dotterer^, one of twins, born November 18, 1741; died 

within six months. 

17. Dotterer% one of twins, born November 18, 1741; died 

within six months. 
18. Anna Maria Dotterer', born January 4, 1745. 

January 24, 1726, Michael Dotterer purchased of Hans Neues, a tract 
of one hundred and fifty acres of land, adjoining the property of his 
father, and fronting, on the northwest, the present dividing line between 
Frederick and New Hanover townships. It lay with a trifling exception 
on the eastern side of Society Run. March 22, 1736, the Proprietaries 
gave him a patent of confirmation for this tract. 

May 4, 1726, he purchased of John Henry Sprogell, one hundred 
acres in New Hanover township, part of the Great Tract of 22377 acres; 
this fronted, on the southeast, the present dividing line between Frederick 
and New Hanover townships, and adjoined the tract purchased January 
24, 1726. January 20, 1736, he purchased of the Proprietaries, fifty 
acres situated northeastward of his January 24, 1726, purchase, and 
adjoining it. June 22, 1751, he purchased of William Parsons, John 
Ross and Robert Greenway, one hundred and four acres and fifty perches 
in New Hanover township. This was to the northeastward of, and 
adjoined, his purchase of May 4, 1726. 

It was found, later, that of the one hundred acres purchased May 4, 
1726, only sixty-nine acres and fifty perches were njally owned by John 
Henry Sprogell; the remainder of thirty acres and one hundred and ton 
perches was the property of William Parsons, et al., and was in the con- 
veyance of one hundred and iour acres and fifty ]K'rclies made by them 
June 22, 1751. 



26 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Michael Dotterer built his home on his first purchase, on the east 
bank of a bend in Society run, about two hundred yards southeast of the 
line of Sprogell's tract of 22,377 acres, now the boundar}^ road between 
New Hanover and Frederick townships. His land lay almost entirely 
eastward of Society run, sloping graduall}^ upward to the highland. 
Along the margin of the stream is a stietch of pretty meadow. On the 
opposite bank rises a bluff which is to this day crowned with giant forest 
trees, among them spicy hemlocks whose pliant branches stretch over the 
brink and across the stream. The soft winds still sough amidst the tree- 
tops of this remnant of primitive forest as they did when the Indians 
frequented these solitudes and when the courageous -settler came hither to 
liuild a home and found a family. The north end of the present farm- 
house is said to have been the original dwelling erected by Michael Dotterer. 

May 20, 1756, Michael Dotterer sold to George Philip Dotterer, his 
eldest son, the two adjoining tracts, containing together aljout one hun- 
dred and seventy-three acres, and one hundred perches, in New Hanover 
township. November 14, 1763, he conveyed to Michael Dotterer, Junior, 

his son, the two adjoining tracts, in Frederick township, containing to- 
gether two hundred acres. 

By these two conveyances he disposed of all his lands. He provided 
for his children — it is stated in his will — by an Article and Bonds between 
himself and his son, Michael Dotterer, Jr. This interesting instrument is 
not known to have been preserved. 

Michael Dotterer made a will in the year 1783, while sojourning in 
York county, Pennsylvania, where his son Conrad Dotterer had settled. 

WILL. 

In the Name of (xod, Amen. I, Michael Dotterer Senear late of Philadelphia 
county and Frederick township and State of Pennsylvania, and now of York county 
and Steate aforesaide yoman beinij; in jiood steate of Health and Sound Mind and 
Memory blessed be (lod. Theretore Do this Day, it being the Tenth Day of October 
In the year of our Lord one thousai^d Seven Hundred ami Eaighty three make and 
])ublice this my last Will and Testament in manner and form foloing, that is to say, 
Imprimis, I Commend my Soul into the Hands of Allmighty God who gave it me 
and my Body to the l^.arth from whence it came in Hope of a joyfull Resurrection 
through the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ; and as for that Worldly Esteate 
wherewith it hath i)leased (lod to Bless me with I dispose as folo'eth. First That all 
my just Debts and funeral Expenses be paide. Second I do will that after my 
decease Each of my children is to have there Share according to an Article and 
Bonds between me and my Son Michael Dotterer, Juner, as thay become due after 
my decease exept my Daughter SufHa Troxel I ilo give and bequeath to her Five 
Shillings Starling besides the 25£ that she hath received and what shee bought at 
my vendue for her full share and after my decease the rest and residue of my Esteate 
I do leave to be Equally divided among my other Three children. First Mary Hef- 
ners, 2 Margreat Doterer, 3 Mary Rife and I do order and ap]iint my l)eloved Son 
Coni'ad Dotterer to be my Executor of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness 
whereof I the said ■Michael Dotterer have to this my last Will and Testament set my 
Hand and Seal the I)av and Yeai' above Writen. 

Iiis 
MICHAEL M DOTTERER [Seal]. 
mark 



MICHAEL DOTTEREK. 27 

September 29, 1786, the will was proliated in York comity. The 
same date Conrad Dotterer, tlie executor named therein, renounced his 
"Right and Title to the Executorship of said Deceased's Will, or in any 
AVise Administering the Goods and Chattels of the said Deceased.'' 
October 21, 1786, John Heebner applied to the Register of Wills of 
Montgomery county for letters of administration u]u)n the estate, and was 
granted the same, upon giving a bond for £150, with Henry Boyer and 
Jacob Schwenck as sureties. The estate was in Montgomery county. 
The account subsequently filed by the administrator showed the gross 
estate to be £93 2 11; the net, £79 12 10. 

THE FAMILY BIBLE 

of Michael and Anna Maria Dotterer is still preserved. It is in the Ger- 
man language, and was printed in 1720 at Basel. It contained a family 
record, which is now lost, but a copy of it was, fortunately, taken before 
its destruction, and translated, folloW'S: 

Childi-en of myself, Johann Michael Dotterer. ami my witV Anna Maria. 

1726. 
.5th March was born unto us a daughter; named Anna Sophia. Spon.sors: Jacob 
Fisher and wife. 

1727. 

oth September was born unto us a daughter; named Anna Frmii. Sponsor: 
Anna Dotterer. 

1729. 

30th August was born unto us a son; named George Philip. Sponsors: Geo. 
Philip Dotterer and his wife. 

1731. 
10th May was born unto us a son; named Johann Conrad. Sponsor: Johann 
Conrad Dotterer. 

1733. 

27th June was born unto us a daughter; named Maria ]\Iargaretta. Sponsors: 
Herman Fisher and his wife. 

1735. 

31st October was born unto us a son; named Joh. INIichael. Sponsors: Joh. 
Wendel Weiant and his wife. 

1737. 
4th July was born unto us a son; named Johann Jacob. Sponsors: Jacob Fisher 
and wife. 

1739. 

22d Jan. was born a son 

1741. 
18th November twins were born. Johannes and .... Both died within 
the next half year. 

174.5. 

4th January was born unto us a daughter; and 24th April she was tiapti/ed ami 
named Anna Maria. Sponsors: Conrad Grob and his wife. 

This Bible was owned successively by Michael Dotterer (1698-1786); 
Michael Dotterer, his son (1735-1811); Conrad Dotterer, grandson (1769- 
1827); EUza Dotterer, great-granddaughter (1805-1867), wife of Enos 
Boyer; Sophia Dotterer, sister to the last named (1819-1884), wife of 
John Hummel, and is now (1902) in possession of John Hummel, wid- 
ower, of Linfield, Montgomery county, Pa. 



28 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

CHURCH CONNECTION. 

Michael Dotterer was a member of the Reformed Church. His w ife 
was of the same denomination, her family — the Fischers — being promi- 
nent in the New Goshenhoppen congregation. Michael Dotterer lived 
nearest to Falkner Swamp Reformed church, which was only three miles 
west from his home. His father was an officer in this congregation in 
1728, the i)eriod wiien its pastor. Rev. John Philip Boehm, was ordained 
to the ministry; but soon after this occurrence he took sides with Rev. 
George Michael Weiss, the opponent of Boehm. We find in the records 
of the New Goshenhoppen congregation, evidence that Michael Dotterer 
attended services and had liis children baptized there, although this church 
was six miles from his home, northward, until about the date (1748) that 
Rev. .John Philip Leydich succeeded Boehm at Falkner Swamp. Thence- 
forth he and his family received the ministrations of Rev. Mr. Leydich, 
until the termination of his pastorate in 1765, and afterwards of Rev. Nicho- 
las Pomp, who was the next i)astor at Falkner Swamp. Entries copied 
from the two Church records follow: 

In the record of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed congregation, dur- 
ing the pastorate of Rev. John Peter Miller, is found this entry of the 
baptism of his daughter, Maria Margaretha: 

1733 (should be 1734) d. 25. Mertz Maria Margaretha Eltern Michael Dotterer 
et uxor. Zeuge Herman Fischer et uxor. 

Georg Philip Dotder, father of Michael Dotterer, was one of forty-five 
heads of families, of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed congregation, 
whose names Rev. John Henry Goetschy, the pastor, entered, in 1736, 
upon the church record. 

During the pastorae of Rev. John Henry Goetschy is entered the 
])aptism of his sons, John Midiael and Jacob: 

('liil(]iv'ii. I'areiitH. Si)Oiisr)rs. 

"1738, 5 Feb. Johan .Michael (^Michael Dodder i Weiidel Wiend Anna Margreth 

"Jacol) i Ana Maria i Jacob Fischer Sophia Elisabeth." 

We find in the records of the Falkner Swamp congregation that his 
children, Conrad, Margaretha, ^licbael and Jacoli Dotterer, were confirm- 
ed by Pastor Leydich: 

At Easter, 1749, Philip Dotterer, Conrad Dotterer and INIargaretha Dotterer were 
contirnied by the pastor of Falkner 8\vainp Reformed congregation. 

At Easter, 1753, Michael Dotterer and Jacob Dotterer were confirmed by the 
Ijastor of Falkner Swainp Reformed church. 

Anna Maria Dotterer, wife of Michael Dotterer, died in January, 
1781. The church record is simply in these words: 

Buried, January 21, 1781, Anna ^Maria, the wife of Michael Dotterer. 

Record of Falkner Swam}) Reformed church: "April 7, 1786, Michael 

Doderer was buried, aged 87 years, 11 months and several days." He 

was buried, beside his wife, in the graveyard in the western portion of 

Frederick townshi]i. adjacent to which Bertolet's Mennonite meeting 



MICHAEL DOTTKRER. 29 

liduses has since been l)uilt. Common stones whidi formerly inarkr(l tlic 
two graves have disappeared. Husband and wife are said to l)e buried 
l)eside the grave of their son, Michael Dottcrcr. wliidi is ap]iiopi-iately 
marked by licad and foot stones. 

A rrRiOTs nori'MKNi". 
In the ])ul)Hc records of Pliiladeli)hia is iilcd a statement drawn Ijv 
David Shultze, old-time scrivener, of New {;oslicnboj)pen, which reveals 
an interesting inciflent in fhe family history of Michael Dotterer and his 

wife. A copy follows: 

The Complaints of Herman Fisher and Mirharl Dntterv as Snn and Son in law nf 
Jacob Fisher deceased, against Wendell Wvant their Hmther in Law, as concerning 
the Testament of the said Jacob Fisher deceased, are as follows: 

By the Said Testament there is only given to the eldest Son of the Said lleniian 
Fisher the Sum of fifteen Founds in Money. And to the eldest Daughter of the Said 
Michael Dottery only Ten I'ounds And more then 2o Pomids to the Said Wendels 
eldest Daughter and all the Kest to the Said Weialell Wyant. 

The Said Herman being the only Son of the Said Jacob Fisher and the wife of 
the Said Michael Dottery is the eldest Daughter and the Wife of the Said Wendell 
Wyant is his Yongest Daughter. The whole Fstate will amount to about 120 Pounds 
Money together. Thus the Testament is made very Partiall} , without any Reasons 
mentioned in the Same. 

Some Years ago, when the Said JacoT) Fisher did live with his Son Herman and 
Some Times at ^Michael Dotterys He had Said at home and elsewhere. That he could 
not go to the Said Wendel Wyant his Son in Law to Live with him, For that he had 
beaten him once and wouM ti'ust him no more. For this Reason it Seems the Said 
Wendell Wyant has been afraid. That his said Father in law might possible not 
give him So much by his Last AVill then to the others. For he had about the Same 
Time Spoke to the Said Herman and Michael Dottery. That Since the wife of the 
Said Jacob Fisher (as his Mother in Law) had declared, hefore her Death, That as 
the Estate having Chiefly derived from her own, and as her Husband being of a Hard 
and changeably Temper, That after his Death They all the Three Children ShouM 
however peaceable divide the whole Estate equally among themselves. So Conform- 
able to this the Said Wendell had Spoke to them That if he Should See, That They 
Should take Advantage of him. That he rather would Loose it all and have nothing. 
To wich the Said Herman and Michael Dottery Consented, to divide once their 
Father's Estate equally among themselves, whatever their Father perhaps might do. 
But Some Time after the Said Jacob Fisher did go to the Said Wendell to Live with 
him, and after that he went away again to another man. 

And Some Time after he intended again to go to the Said Wendell. But the 
Said AVendell Wyant refused to accept him once more. Unless lie did Chose and 
appoint Some Administrators to take Care of his own Estate. Since he was no inort' 
Capable of doing it himself. Whereupon at the Desire of the Said Fisher he the Said 
Wendell named first one man for an Administrator and Then the Said Fisher did 
Chose two more. And after this the Said Testament being So jiartially made in 
presence of the Said Adm''*. But Some Time after the Said Fisher went again away 
from the Saiil Wendell (no Doubt out of Discontent) to one named Andrew Craber, 
where by the Said Grabers Wife he being once put in Remem>)rance of the Said 
Testament whereupon he declared himself in Such Words as: 1 imist Confess Tiiat if 
the Will Shctuld remain So as it is now. That my Son Herman would nmch Loose by 
it (or much Suffer by it, or much get Short). But 1 am yet alive, I can alter it at 
any Time. 



30 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

This could be proved by witness if required. 

This happened onh' about Two or Three Months ))efore his Death. For 8oon 
after he went again to the Said Wendell Wyant, and there became Sick and dyed, on 
the 8'" of March Last without altering the Said Testament. 

But now the Said Wendell refuses to divide the Said Fishers Estate equally 
among themselves (contrary to his own former desire as mentioned above) Since the 
Said Testament is made to his Advantage. 

Though the Said Wendell has once promised to the Said Michael Dottery That 
he would l)e Content, That the whole Estate jnight be equally divided among them- 
selves, yet he has also said to some others. That he would do nothing unless the said 
Testament be declared for null and void by Law. 

In my mind the Said Herman Fisher and Michael Dottery have Such a Just 
Right to Claim their due Share of their Fathers Estate as the said Wendell Wyant. 

And for my Tart I Suppose The Said Jacob Fisher has Caused his Said Testa- 
ment to be made in such a manner, without a Just or Sufficient Deliberation. 

And as he has been of Such an inconstant Mind, So that he now and then having 
been nuich more favourable to one then to another of his own Children So it is hard- 
ly to l>e Said wether he has l)een then a INIan of Compos Mentis or not. 

Though I happened to be troubled with writing the Said Testament, and also 
Subscribed as a witness to the Same Yet I Cannot Conscientiously take an Affirma- 
tion (for all the abovesaid Reasons) to the Confirmation of the Said Will. 

I could not Say otherwise if I was myself present For the Rest I wish that the 
Case might be fair Adjusted. DAYID SHULTZE. 

DEED FOR FIRST LAND PURCHASE. 

This Indenture, Made the twenty-fourth day of January in the year of our Lord 
One thousand seven hundred and twenty six. Between Hans Newes of the Northern 
J^il^erties of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and 
Yonecan his wife of the one part. And ^lichael Doudera of Falkner's Swamp in the 
County of Philadelphia in the said Province, Yeoman of the other part. Witnesseth, 
That the said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife for and in consideration of the sum 
of Fifty ])ounds lawful money of Pennsylvania to them in hand paid by the said 
^Michael Doudera at and before the sealing and delivery hereof, the receipt whereof 
they do hereby acknowledge and thereof do acquit and forever discharge the said 
IVIichael Doudera his heirs and assigns by these presents, have granted, liargained, 
sold, aliened, enfeoffed, and contirme<l and by these i:)resents do grant, l)argain, sell, 
alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said ]\Iichael Dodera. A certain Tract or parcel 
of land situate in the said County of Philadelphia. Begimiing at a post by a corner 
of Philip Dodera's land, thence northwest 1>v vacant land one hundred eighty two 
perches to the (Jerinan tract, thence ])y the same south west one hundred thirty two 
perches to a ]>ost l)y a corner of John Newes land, thence by the same South east 
one hundred eiglity two perches to a post near a white oak marked for a corner in 
the line of Philip Doudera's land, thence by the same line North East one humh-ed 
thirty two jierches to the place of beginning. Containing One hundred and fifty 
acres. Which said descrilied tract is part of Two hundred acres of land Surveyed on 
the first day of November 1720 unto the said Hans Newes in ]iart of his purchase of 
Seven hundred and fifty acres of land of John Budd and Humphry ^Murray who pur- 
chased the same with other lands of William Bacon who was an original purchaser of 
Five Thousand acres of land to be located in the said Province, of and from William 
Penn Proprietary and Governor thereof (lately deceased). Together also with all 
and singular the ways, woods, waters, water-courses, fishings, fowlings, hawkings, 
huntings, rights, liberties, j)rivileges and improvements, hereditaments and appurte- 
nances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. And the rever- 
version and reversions, remainder and remainilers, rents, issues, and profits thereof, 
and true copys of all Deeds, Evidences and writings concerning the same to be had 
and taken at the proper charges of the said Michael Dodera his heirs or assigns. To 
have and to hold the said tract or pai'cel of land, hereditaments an<l jtremises hereby 
granted or mentioned to l)e granted with the appurtenances unto the said ^Michael 
Do(lera his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of him the said 
Michael Dodera his heirs and assigns forever. Under the yearly quit rent hereafter 



MICHAEL DOTTKIIKR. 31 

accruiiii; for the hereby granted iircmises to the Cliirl Lonl of ihe I'^ee thereof. Ami 
the said Hans Newes and his heirs Ihe saiil traet or parrel of land, hereditaments and 
[)reniises hereby granted or mentioned tu be granted with the a]>iinrtenanees nnto 
the said Michael Doder^ his heirs and assigns against him the said Hans Newes and 
his heirs and against all and every other i)erson and ])ersons whatsoever shall an<l 
will Warrant and forever Defend liy these presents. And the said Hans Newes for 
himself his heirs, exeeutors and Administrators do covenant, ])romisi' and grant to 
and with the said Michael Dodera his lu'irs and assigns by these presents in manner 
following, that is to say. That he the said Hans Newes now at the time of the sealing 
and delivery of this present Indenture is the time, sole and lawful owner and proprie- 
tor of the said tract or parcel of land, hereditaments and pri-mises hereby granted or 
mentioned to be granted with the apiMirtenances, and is solely, lawfully, rightfully 
and alisolutely seized thereof and of every part and [larcel thereof as of a g<iod, sure, 
absolute and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in fee sim])le without any manner of 
condition, contingent proviso, limitation or other restraint matti'r or thing to deter- 
mine, alter or change the same. And shall continue so seized thereof and of every 
part and ])an'e.l thereof until a good sure absolute and indefeasi})le Estate of InVieri- 
tance in fee simple shall be thereof vested in the said .Michael Doudera and his heirs 
according to the true intent and meaning of these i)resents. And the said Tract or 
parcel of land, hereditaments and premises herel)y granted <u- meutioued to he grant- 
ed with the appurtenances now are and at all times hereafter forever shall remain 
and continue to be unto the said ^lichael Dodera his heirs and assigns free and clear 
and freely and clearly ac(|uitted and discharged of and from all manner of former and 
other gifts, grants, bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, joyntures. Dowers, wills, entails, 
Aniuiities, Kents, arrearages of rent, titles, t'harges and incuud)rances whatsoever 
(The Quit Rent hereafter accruing as aforesaitl only exce{)ted and foreprized). 

And that he the said Hans Newes and Yonecan his wife and his heirs and all 
and every other person and persons whatsoever having or lawfully claiming or that 
shall or may at any time or times hereafter so have or claim any Estate, Kight, Title 
or Interest of in or to the premises or any part or parcel thereof shall and will at any 
time or times hereafter upon the reasonable re(iuest, cost and charges in law of the 
said Michael Dodera his heirs or assigns make, execute and acknowledge or cause so 
to be all and every such further and other reasonable act and acts, deed or deeds, 
device or devices in law whatsoever for the further and better assurance and confir- 
mation of the said Tract or parcel of land, hereditaments and premises hereby granted 
or intended to be granted with the a])pnrtenances unto the said Michael Dodera his 
heirs and assigns, as by him or them or l>y his or their Court of Learned in the Law 
shall be reasonably devised, advised or required. 

In Witness Whereof the said i)arties to these j)resents have interchangeably set 
their hands and seals hereunto dated the day and year first above written. 
Sealed and delivered ] ^-"^ 

in the presence of us I jj^^j,.^ NEWES { seal | 

Isaac Dubois - t ) 



Jos. Watson | 

Cha. Tavlor J 



YONECAN NEWES |seal| 



Received on the day of the date of the within Indenture of the within named 
Michael Dodera the sum of Fifty pounds, being the full consideiation money within 
mentioned, I say received by me Hans Newes. 

Witnesses present at signing, Cha. Taylor, Jos. Watson. 

Be it Remembered, That the twenty seventh day of .lauuary .\nno Domiui I7L'() 
at Philadelphia before me lOdward R.berts one of the Justices of the j'eace of the 
Citv and Countv of Philadelphia came the within named Hans Newes in his proi>er 
person, and brought this writing or conveyance which he acknowledged to be his 
deeil and desires that the same may be enrolled or recorded as his Deecl according to 
an Act of Assemblv of this Province in that behalf lately maili- and i)rovided. In 
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the ilay and year abovesaid. 

E1)W.\KD [ROBERTS [sealJ 



32 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

DEED OF CONFIRMATION OF THE FOREGOING PURCHASE. 

The following is the Proprietaries' deed of confirmation of Hans 
Newes' deed : 

John Peiin, Thomas Penii & Richard Penn Esquires true and absohite Proprie- 
taries and Governors in Chief of the Provinces of Pennsylvania and Counties of New- 
castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware. 

To all unto whom these Presents shall come Send Greeting. 

Whereas in and by Deeds indented of Lease and Release bearing Date respect- 
ively the eleventh and twelfth Days of October 1681 for the Considerations therein 
mentioned our late Father William Penn Esq. then Proprietary and Governor in 
Chief of our said Province, Did grant and release unto William Bacon of the Middle 
Temple Gent the Quantity of five thou.sand Acres of Land to be surveyed within our 
said Province To Hold to him his Heirs and Assigns forever Under the yearly Quit 
Rent of one shilling for every h.undred acres of the same And whereas in and by 
other Deeds of Lease and Release bearing Date the nineteenth and twentyeth Days 
of February Anno 1718 for the Consideration therein mentioned he the said Williani 
Bacon did grant and release the same Quantity of five thousand Acres of Land and 
Premises with the Appurtenances unto Humphrey Murry and John Budd then of 
the City of Philadelphia To hold to them their Heirs and Assigns forever And to the 
End and purpose that the said Quantity of Land might be accordingly surveyed two 
several Warrants (at the Instance and Request of the said Humphrey Murry and 

.John Budd) were granted by the Commissioners of Property Under our lesser 

Seal bearing Date respectively the fifth Day of third Month and the twenty eighth 
Day of the sixth Month Anno 1719. And the said Humphrey Murry and John Budd 
having by like Deeds of Lease and Release of the twenty fifth and twenty sixth Day 
of October Anno 1720 granted unto Hans Newes then of the Northern Liberties of 
Philadelphia since deceased the Quantity of Seven liundred twenty five Acres of 
Land Part of the said five thousand Acres of Land the same was surveyed and laid 
out unto the said Hans Newes in two several Tract sone of five hundred Acres the 
other two hundred twenty five .\cres on the second and third Days of November 
then next ensuing lying near the Branches of Parkeawming Creek in the County of 
Philadelphia as in and by the Surveys thereof remaining in our Surveyor Generals 
Office may appear and Whereas in and by a certain Deed indented bearing Date the 
twenty fourtli Day of January 172(5 for the Consideration therein mentioned he the 
said Hans Newes and Yonecan his Wife Did grant and convey unto Michael Totherah 
(als Dodera) of Falkner's Swamp in the County of Philad'' his Heirs and Assigns; A 
Certain Part of the Tract of five liundred Acres surveyed as aforesaid being since 
circumscribed within the Hoiuids of Frederick Townsliip. Beginning at a Corner of 
Jolm Newes' Lau'l Thence by the same North West one hundred eighty two Perches 
to a line ol the German Companys Land Tlience by tiie same North East one hun- 
dred and thirty two perches to a corner of the said ]\Iichael Totherah's other land 
thence by tlie same and bv land of George Philip Totherah South East one hundred 
eighty two perches to a Post Thence by the said (Jeorge Philip Totherah's land 
South West one liundred thirty two perches to the place of beginning, containing 
one hundred and fifty acres ***** As in and by the Survey and Division 
of the same remaining in our Surveyor (ieneral's office and from thence certified into 
our Secretary's office may appear. 

Now at the Instance and Request of the said Michael Totherah that we would 
be pleased to grant iiim a Confirmation of the said one hundred and fiftv acres of 
Land according to the Situation and Survey aforesaid. Know Ye that in considera- 
tion of the several (irants, Matters and Things hereinbefore recited and for the 
yearly Quit Rent hereinafter mentioned and reserved. We have Given, Granted, 
Released and Confirmeil * * * * unto the said Michael Totherah and his 
Heirs The said one hundred and fifty Acres of Land * * * * To have and to 
hold the said one liundred and fiftv Acres of Land * * * Yielding and paying 
therefore to ourselves our Heirs and successors at the City of Philadelphia at or upon 
the first day of March in every Year from the first Day of this Instant March, one 
English Silver Sliiliing for the one hundred acres and in Proportion for the fifty 
Acres or Value tliereof in (V)in Current according as the Exchange shall then be 
between our .said Province and the City of London * * * 

In Witness whereof the said Thomas Penn * * * hath caused the Great 
Seal of the said Province to be hereunto affixed at Philadelphia this twenty-second 



MICHAEL DOTTERER. 33 

Day of ihiich Anno Domini 1736 The Tenth }'ear of the Reign of King (George the 
Second over Great Britain, &c., <k the Nineteenth Year of onr (Government. 



TIIO. PKNN. 



•| SEAL > 



DEED FOR SECOND LAND PURCHASE. 



This Indenture, ^Nlade the fourth day of -May in t!ie year of our Lord One thou- 
sand seven liundred and twenty six. P)et\veen John Henry Sprogell of the City of 
Pliiladelphia, Gentleman of the one part, And Michael Doutlera of New Hanover 
Township in the said County of I'hiladelphia, Yeoman of the other part. Whereas 
there is a certain piece or tract of land situate in the said County, Beginning at a 
corner of 3Iichael Doudera's other land in Sprogell's line, thence Nortli West One 
hundred and twenty one perches and four feet to a post put for a corner thence 
south west One hundred and tiiirty two perches to a post in tiie line of .Jacob Myer's 
land, thence by the same and by Hans Sinkman's land, south east one hundred and 
twenty one perches and four feet to a post at a corner of the said Michael Doudera's 
other land, thence by tlie same North east one liundred and thirty two perches to 
the place of beginning. Containing one hundred acres. It lieing part of a certain 
great tract of twenty two thousand tluiH' hundred and seventy • seven acres of land 
which was lateh' granted to the said John Henry Sprogell in fee. Now this inden- 
ture Witnesseth that the said John Henry Sprogell for the consideration of the sum 
of Twenty five pounds lawful money to him paid by the said Michael Doudera Hath 
granted, baigained, sold, released and confirmed and by these presents doth grant, 
bargain, sell, release, and confirm unto the said INIichael Doudera (in his actual 
seizen now being by virtue of a bargain and sale to him juade for one year by In- 
denture bearing date the day next before the day of the date hereof, and made 
between the same parties as these presents) and to his heirs and assigns. All that 
the above described piece or tract of land situate bounded and being as the same is 
above set forth and described and containing One hundred acres as aforesaid. To- 
gether also with all and singular the buildings, improvements, ways, woods, waters, 
water-courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurti-nances, what- 
soever thereunto belonging, and the reversions and remainders thereof (one full 
equal half part of all mines included within the bounds and limits of the One hun- 
dred acres aforesaid excepted and always reserved out of this present grant.) To 
have and to hold the said described piece or tract of land, hereditaments and prem- 
ises hereby granted or mentioned so to be with the appurtenances (except before 
excepted) unto the said Michael Doudera his heirs and assigns, to the only use and 
behoof of him tfie said Michael Doudera his heirs and assigns forever. Yielding and 
paying therefore yearly unto the said John Henry Sprogell his heirs and assigns the 
yearly rent of one shilling lawful sterling money of Great Britain or value thereof in 
coin current on the first day of March yearly forever. And if it shall happen the 
said yearly rent of one shilling hereby reserved or any part thereof shall be behind 
and unpaid at or after any of the days herein before mentioned and appointed for 
pavment thereof, That then and from thenceforth always after, as often as the said 
rent shall be so behind and unpaid, it shall and may he lawful for the said John 
Henry Sprogell his heirs or assigns into and upon the said land and premises hereby 
granted or mentioned so to be or any part thereof and in the messuages thereon 
erected or to be erected with the appurtenances to enter and distrain and the dis- 
tress and distresses then and there found and taken to leatl, drive and carry away, 
and the same to impound, detain and keep at the proper Risque and charges of the 
said Micliael Doudera his heirs and assigns for the space of five days and if within 
the said space of five days payment and satisfaction of the said rent and arrearages 
thereof if any be not made then & at any time thereafter it shall and may be lawful 
for the said John Henry Sprogell his heirs and assigns or any of them, the said dis- 
tress and distresses to expose and sell by publick auction or vendue for the best 
price that can be reasonably gotten for tlie same, and after payment and satisfaction 
of the said rent and arrearages thereof, and all charges of distress and detenture and 
sale are first deducted, the overplus to return to the said Michael Doudera his heirs 
or assigns. And the said John Henry Sprogell and his heirs the saiil piece or tract 
of land, hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned so to be with the 
appurtenances (except before excepted) unto tlie said Michael Doudera his heirs and 
assigns, against him the said John Henrv Sprogell and his heirs, and against all 
other persons, lawfullv claiming or to claim shall and will under the yearly rent 
aforesaid warrent and" forever defend by these presents. In Witness Whereof, the 



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34 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

aforesaid parties to these presents have interchangeably set their hands and seals 
liereto, dated the day and year above written. 

Healed and delivered 



in the presence of us 
Johannali Parsons 
William Parsons 



JOHN HENRY SPROGELL, SENOR. 




Memo. The Eighteenth day of May A. D. 1736 before me Edward Roberts Esq. 
one of the Justices of ye Peace for ye City & County of Philadelphia came ye within 
named John Henry Sprogell and brought ye within writing which he acknowledged 
to be his deed and desired the same may be recorded as his deed according to law. 
Witness my hand and seal ye day and year aforesaid. 

EDWARD ROBERTS [seal]. 

Mem. Thirty acres of ye within granted land and one hundred and ten perches 
are included in a deed for one hundred and four acres and fifty perches from William 
Parsons, John Ross and Robert Greenway to ye within named Michael Totherah 
dated 22'' day of June 1751. Witness my hand. 

ROBT. GREENWAY. 

Received of ye within named Michael Doudera ye sum of Twenty five pounds it 
being ye consideration money within mentioned pr. me. 

JOHN HENRY SPROGELL, SENOR. 

Witnesses present at signing. 
Johannah Parsons 
Wm. Parsons 

Know all men by these presents, That Whereas, the within named John Henry 
Sprogell by Indenture of the 20"^ Dec. 1733 did sell unto Henry Soams of London Seven 
thousand live hundred acres of land whereof the within one hundred acres is a part. 
And Whereas the heirs of said Henry Scjams by indenture of the 8"' October 1748 
did sell unto Thomas Preston the said lands with the rents, yearly issues and profits 
thereof. Therefore he the said Thomas Preston, in consideration of one pound four- 
teen shillings to him in hand paid by tiie within named Michael Doudera, doth 
hereby not only discharge all the by past Rents of one shilling sterling, reserved 
yearly as within mentioned, but likewise doth hereby sell, release and confirm the 
within rent of one sliilling sterling reserved as within mentioned unto him the said 
Michael Dudderow his heirs and assigns forever. Witness the h^nd and seal of 
Thomas Preston this thirteenth day of January, An. D. 1749 /50. 
Witness present | ,— ^^ 

i';,°ia%i"S 1 THOMAS PRESTON, {skal} 

PATENT FOR THIRD LAND PURCHASE. ^^ 

John Penn, Thomas Penn & Richard Penn Esquires true and absolute Proprie- 
taries and Governors in Chief of the Provinces of Pennsylvania and Counties of New- 
castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware. 

To all unto whom these Presents shall come. Greeting. 

Whereas in pursuance and by virtue of our Warrant under the lesser seal of our 
said province bearing date the eighth day of November, Anno Domini 1734, there 
was surveyed and laid out on the twenty first day of February then next ensuing, 
unto Michael Totherah of the county of Philadelphia, a certain Tract of Land situ- 
ate in Frederick Township in the said county: Beginning at a post in a line of a 
tract called the (lerman Tract at a corner of other land of the said Michael Totherah, 
and extending thence by the said land south east one hundred and five perches to a 
post, thence by land of George Philip Totherah North East Eighty one perches to a 
post, thence by vacant land, North west one hundred and five perches to a post in 
the aforesaid line of the German Tract, thence by the same south west eighty one 
perches to the point of beginning. Containing Fifty acres and an allowance propor- 
tionate to six acres, per cent for roads and Highways as in and by the survey thereof 
remaining in our Surveyor General's office may appear. 

Now at the Instance and Request of the said Michael Totherah that we would 
be pleased to grant him a Confirmation of the same, Know Ye, That in considera- 



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MICHAEL DOTTERER. 35 

tion of the sum of Seven pounds, fifteen shillings, law I'ul iiionev of Pennsylvania, to 
our use paid by the said Michael Totherah the leoeipt whereof" we hereby acknowl- 
edge, and thereof do acquit and forever diseiiarge the said Michael Totherah his 
heirs and assigns by these presents, and also for the yearly quit rent hereinafter 
mentioned and reserved. We have given, granted, released," and confirmed, and by 
these presents for us our heirs and successors do give, grant, release and confirm 
unto the said IMichael Totherah and his heirs, tlie said fifty acres of land as the same 
is now set forth, bounded and limited as aforesaid with all Mines, Minerals, Quar- 
ries, Meadows, Marshes, Savannahs, Swamps, Crippled Woods, rn<lerwoods. Tim- 
bers and Trees, Ways, Waters, i*c Watercourses. Liberties and Profits, Connnodities, 
Advantages, hereditaiuents and appurtenances whatsoever to the said Fifty acres of 
land belonging in anywise appertaining and lying within tlie bounds and limits 
aforesaid. (Three full and clear lifth parts of all Royal Mines free from all Rever- 
sions and Reprisals for digging and refining the same", also one fifth part of the ore of 
all other mines, delivered at the pit's luouths only excepted and hereby reserved), 
and also free lease, right and liberty to and for the said Michael Totherah his heirs 
and assigns to hawk, hunt, fish and fowl in and upon the hereby granted land and 
premises or upon any part thereof: To have and to hold the said fifty acres of land 
and premises hereby granted (except as before excepted), with the appurtenances 
unto the said ^Michael Totherah his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of 
the said Michael Totherah his heirs and assigns forever. To be holden of us our 
heirs and successors proprietaries of Pennsylvania or of the Manor of Springetsberry 
in the county of Philadelphia aforesaid in free and conunon soccage by fealty only 
in lieu of all other services. Yielding and Paying therefor yearly to us our heirs 
and successors at the city of Philadelphia at or upon the lirst day of ^larcli in every 
year from the first survey thereof one half penny sterling for every acre of the same 
or value to thereof in coin current according as the Exchange shall then be between 
our said province and the City of London to such person or persons as shall from 
time to time be appointed to receive the same, and in case of non pavment thereof 
within ninety days next after the same shall become due, that then it shall and may 
be lawful for us our heirs and successors and their receiver or receivers into and 
upon the hereby granted land and premises to re-enter and the same to hold and 
possess unto until the said Quit Rent and all arrearages thereof, together with the 
charges accruing by means of such non-payment and Re-entry aforesaid be fully 
paid and discharged. 

In "Witness whereof the said Thomas Penn as well by virtue of the powers and 
authorities in him vested by the said John and Richard Penn as of his own right, 
hath caused the great seal of the said Province to be hereunto affixed. Given at 
Philadelphia this twentj'eth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and thirty six the tenth year of the reign of George tlie Second over 
Great Britain Cr. King and the nineteenth year of our Government. 



THO. PENN 



< SEAL > 



A brief of title to the foregoing tract, in the handwriting of Judge 

Benjamin Markley, made about the year 1812, was still preserved (about 

1880) among the title papers of one of the farms formed from this 

property. 

1681. Octob^ 11 & 12"^^ Deed Lease & Release from William Penn Esq to William 
Baken for 5000 Acres of Land. 

1718. February 19 & 20. Deed Lease & Release from said William Baken to Hum- 

phrey Murry & John Budd for said 5000 Acres of Land. 

1719. June 28th. Two Warrants by Commissioners of Property were granted unto 

Humphrey Murry and John Budd one dated March & the other June 
28"' 1719, to have the same surveyed. 

1720. October 25 & 26"^. Deed lease and Release from Humphrey Murry & John 

Budd to Hans News for 725 Acres part of said 5000 Acres, which land 
Surveyed & Sold out unto said Hans News in two Several Tracts one of 
500 Acres the other of 225 Acres on the 2 & S"* days of November 1720. 



36 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

1726. January 24. Deed from Hans News and Yonican his wife to ]\Iichael Dot- 
terer for 150 Acres part of said 5000 Acres in Frederick Township March 
15"" 1786. Benjamin Eastburn Surveyor General Draugiit for said 150 
Acres of Land. 

1736. March 22'*. Patent John Penn Thomas Penn & Richard Penn to said Michael 
Dotterer for said 150 Acres of Land. 

1763. November 14"". Deed from s"* Michael Dotterer & Ann Mary his wife to their 
son Michael Dotterer for said 150 Acres of Land. 



DEED FOR FOURTH LAND PURCHASE. 

This Indenture, Made the twenty second day of June in the 3'ear of our Lord 
one thousand seven luindred and fifty one. Between William Parsons of the County 
of Lancaster, Plsquire, and John Ross and Robert Greenway of the City of Philadel- 
phia, Gent, of the one part. And Micliael Tothera of Hanover Township in the 
county of Philadelphia Yeoman of the otlier part. Witnesseth, that the said 
William Parsons, John Ross and Robert Greenway in consideration of the sum of 
Twenty two pounds three shilHngs and four pence lawful money of Pennsylvania, 
to them in hand paid by the said Michael Totherah, the receipt whereof is hereby 
acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, released and confirmed, and by these 
presents do grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said Michael Tothera 
and to his heirs and assigns, A certain tract or piece of land, situate in the said 
township, Beginning at a White Oak in the line of Henry Grob's land, thence 
extending by the same South forty six degrees and three quarters East one hundred 
and twenty eight perches to a post in the chief line of Mumbower's land thence by 
the same and by the said ^lichael Tother-a's other land South forty three degrees 
West one hundred and twenty nine perches to a post thence by the said Tothera's 
other land North forty seven degrees West one hundred and thirty perches to a post 
in a line of Christoplier Bittenbinder's land thence by the same North forty four 
degrees East one hundred and twenty nine perches and a half to the place of be- 
ginning. Containing One hundred and four (104) acres and fifty (50) perches of 
land [part of 26S0 acres which Septimus Robison Elsq. late High Sheriff of the City 
and County of Philadelphia by Deed Poll of the fifth day of March 1739 acknowl- 
edged in Open Court, did bargain and sell unto Samuel Johnston in fee, who grant- 
ed the same unto the said William Parsons, John Ross and Robert Greenway in fee 
by Indenture of tlie 5"' day of August 1746 and the said 2680 acres tract is part of 
six thousand acres which John Henry Sjirogell did grant unto Thomas Tresse, the 
elder, in fee, by Imlenture of the eighth day of November 1712, and since the de- 
cease of the said Thomas Tresse the same six thousand acres were taken in execution 
for debts owing by him and sold in two several tracts by the said late Sheriff.] To- 
gether also with all and singular the ways, woods, waters, water-courses, privileges, 
improvements, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, 
and the reversions and remainders thereof and all and every the Estate, right, title, 
interest, use, trust, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said William 
Parsons, John Ross and Roljert Greenway or any of them, of, in or to the same. To 
have and to hokl the said described tract or piece of land, hereditaments and prem- 
ises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said Michael Tothera his heirs 
and assigns, to the only use and behoof of the said Michael Tothera, his heirs and 
assigns forever. Under the yearly quit rent due and to become due for the same to 
the Chief Lord or Lords of the Fee thereof. And the said William Parsons, John 
Ross and Robert Greenway and their heirs, the said described tract or piece of land, 
hereditaments and premises herel)y granted or mentioned to be granted with the 
appurtenances unto the said Michael Totherah his heirs and assigns against them the 
said William Parsons, John Ross, and Rol)ert Greenway and their and every of their 
heirs respectively and against the said Thomas Tresse, the elder, deceased, and 
against the nephew Thomas Tresse, the younger, deceased, and their and each of 
their heirs, and also against the said John Henry Sprogell deceased and Lodwick 
Christian Sprogell also deceased, and their and each of their heirs, and against all 
and every other person and persons lawfully claiming or to claim by from or under 
them or any of them, and against no other person or persons whomsoever in any 
wise shall and will warrant and forever defend by these jsresents. 



MICHAEL D0TTP:RER. 37 

In Witness Whereof the saici parties to these presents have interchangeably set 
their hands and seals hereto, dated the day and year first above written. 
Sealed and delivered 
[by the above named Wni. I'arsons] 
in the presence of ns 

Thomas Willing 

Edmund Physick 
Sealed and delivered 
[by the above named John Ross and 

Robert Green way] 
in the presence of ns 

Peacock Bigger 

James Biddle 



WM. PARSONS {seal I 

JOHN ROSS {seal I 



ROliERT GREENWAY 



< SEAL > 



CONVEYANCES BY MICHAEL DOTTERER TO HIS SONS. 



This Indenture, Made the twentieth ilay of May in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred and fifty six, Between IVIichael Dotterer, alias Doudera of 
New Hanover Township in the County of Philadelphia, Yeoman, and Anna Maria 
his wife of the one part, and Phili]) Dotterer of the sauie ])lace, Yeoman, (the eldest 
son and heir of the said Michael Dotterer and Annie Maria his said wife) of the other 
part. Whereas in and ])y a certain Indenture bearing date the fourth day of May in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty six, made or mention- 
ed to be made by and between John Henry S])rogell of the city of Philadelphia, 
Gentleman, of the one part, and the said ^Michael Dotterer of the other part. He 
the said John Henry Sjirogell for the consideration therein mentioned did grant, 
bargain, sell, release and confirm, unto the said Michael Dotterer, A certain piece or 
tract of land situate in the said county: Beginning at a post at a corner of Michael 
Dotterer's other land in Sprogell's line, thence North West one hundred and twenty 
one perches and four feet to a post put for a corner, thence South West one hundred 
and thirty two perches to a post in the line of Jacob Meyer's land, thence by the 
same and ])y Hans Sinkmans land South East one hundred and twenty one perches 
and four feet to a post at a corner of the said Michael Dotterers other land thence by 
the same North East one hundred and thirty two perches to the place of l)eginning. 
Containing one hundred acres, Together with the appurtenances. To hold to the 
said Michael Dotterer his heirs and assigns for ever as in and by the said recited 
Indenture relation lieing thereunto had may more at large appear. And Whereas, 
since the execution of the above recited Indenture it appears that the said John 
Henry Sprogell was not wholly entitled to the said described one hundred acre ti'act 
of land, but only to sixty nine acres and fifty perches part thereof and the remaining 
thirty acres and one hundred and ten perches the residuary jiart of the said one 
hundred acres among other lands become since vested in William Parsons Esq. John 
Ross Esq. and Rol)ert Greenway, Gent. And Whereas in and by a certain Inden- 
ture bearing date the twenty second day of June in the year of our Lord 1751 made 
or mentioned to be made by and between the said William Parsons, John Ross and 
Robert Greenway of the one part, and the said ^Michael Dotterer of the other part. 
They the said William Parsons, John Ross ivnd Robert (xreenway for the considi-ra- 
tion therein mentioned did grant, bargain, sell, release, and contirm unto the said 
Michael Dotterer, A certain tract or piece of land situate in New Hanover Townshij) 
aforesaid, Beginning at a White Oak in the line of Henry Grul)'s land, thence 
extending by the same South forty six degrees and three ipiarters East one hundred 
and twenty eight perches to a post in the chief line Mum]>aver's land, thence l)y the 
same and by the said 'Michael Dotterers land South forty three degrees East one 
hundred and twenty nine perches to a post, theJice by the said Dotterer's other 
land North forty seven degrees East one hundred and thirty perches to a post in a 
line of Christopher Bittenbinder's land, thence by the same North forty four 
degrees East one hundred and twenty nine perches and a half to the place of 
beginning. Containing one hundred and four acres and fifty perches of land. In 
which last descri})ed tract the above said thirty acres and one hundreil and ten 
perches of land part of the said one hundred acre tract aw iiiclu<led. Together with 
the appurtenances to hold to the said ]\Iichael Dotterer his heirs and assigns fon-ver, 
as in and by the said recited Indenture, relation being thereunto had may more at 
large appear. Now This Indenture, Witnesseth, That the said Michael Dotterer 
and Anna Maria his wife as well for and in consideration of the natural love aiid 
affection which they have ami do bare fftr and toward tlieir sai<l son the said Philip 
Dotterer, and for his perferment in the world, as also for and in c(jnsideration of the 



38 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

8inn of one hundretl pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania unto the said Michael 
Dotterer and Anna Maria his wife, in hand well and truly paid by the said Philip 
Dotterer at and before the sealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof they the 
said Michael Dotterer and Anna Maria his wife do hereby acknowledge, and thereof 
do acquit and forever discharge the said Philip Dotterer his heirs and assigns by 
these fjresents, have grante<l, bargained, sold, released and confirmed and by these 
presents do grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said Philip Dotterer 
and to his heirs and assigns. All those the above described two pieces or tracts of 
land situate, bounded and being as above said and containing in the whole one 
hundred and seventy three acres and one hundred and fifty perches of land. To- 
gether, also, with all and singular the buildings, improvements, ways, woods, 
waters, water-courses, rights, lil)erties, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances 
whatsoever thereunto respectively belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the 
reversions and remainders thereof, and all the Estate right, title, interest, use, 
possession, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Michael Dot- 
terer and Anna Maria his wife in and to the hereby granted or nientioned to be 
granted premises. To have and to hold the said one hundred and seventy acres and 
one hundred and fifty perches of land, be the same more or less, hereditaments and 
premises hereby granted or mentioned to be granted with the appurtenances respec- 
tively unto the said Philip Dotterer his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and 
behoof of the said Philip Dotterer his heirs and assigns forever. Under the propor- 
tionable part of the yearly Quit Rent hereafter accruing for the hereby respectively 
granted premises unto the Chief Lord or Lords of the fee thereof. And the said 
Michael Dotterer for himself, his Heirs, Executors and Administrators doth covenant, 
promise and grant to and with the said Philip Dotterer his heirs and assigns by these 
presents, that he the said Michael Dotterer hath not heretofore done, committed or 
wittingly or willingly suffered to l)e done or committed any act, matter, cause or 
thing whatsoever whereljy the premises hereby granted or mentioned to be granted 
or any part thereof or parcel thereof are is or shall or may be impeached charged or 
incumbered in title, charge, estate or otherwise howsoever. In Witness Whereof 
the said parties to these presents have interchangeably set their hands and seals 
hereunto dated the day and year first abo\'e written. 
Sealed and Delivered in ] ,_a_ 

^''""'S'^rge Nyce MICHAEL DOTTERER | seal } 

Jacob Meyer J 

her 
ANNA MARIA O DOTTERER 

mark 

On the seventh day of August in the year of our Lord 1758 Before me John 
Koplin Esq. one of the Justices &c. came the above named Michael Dotterer and 
Anna Maria his wife and acknowledged the al)ove written Lidenture to be their 
Deed and desired that the same may be recorded as their deed. The said Anna 
Maria thereunto voluntarily consenting. She being of full age, secretly and apart 
examined and the contents of the same writing ])eing first made known unto her. 
AVitness my hand and seal the day and yeai- aliovesaid. 

JOHN KOPLIN [seal]. 

Received the day of the date of the within written Indenture of the within 
named Philij) Dotterer the sum of one hundred pounds, it being the 
consideration within mentioned, I say received per me, Michael Dotterer. 
Witnesses present at signing, 

Frederick Antes, Conrad V. Smith. 

The first described tract described in the within deed l)ounds by Michael Krebs' 
land South West and from thence it runs 41 perches South east, thence North east 
eight perches and thence South east. Recorded ye 27*'' August 1761. 

This Indenture made the fourteenth Day of November In the Year of our Lord 
1763, Between Michael Doderer of Frederick township and County of Philadelphia 
Yeoman With Ann Mary his Wife of the one part and Michael Doderer their Son 
Junior of the sayed Township and County aforesaid Yeoman of the other Part, Wit- 
nesseth that the sayd INIichael Doderer with Ann Mary his Wife for the Natural 
Love and Affection which the have and Beare unto their Sayd Son Michael Doderer 
Junior and for and in consideration of the further sum of Two Hundred and Fifty 




I 



MICHAEL DOTTERER. 39 

Pounds current and Lawful Money of Pensilvania to them . . . payd by the 
sayd Michael Doderer junior . ". . have <,n-aiited . . . unto the said Mirhael 
Doderer junior . . . Two i)ieces or Tracts of Land adjoininii eaoli other situatcil 
. . . in Frederick Townshij) and County of Philadelphia aforesaid The one of 
them Beginning at a Corner of John Neys' Land . . . by the same North West one 
Hundred and eighty two Perches to a Line of the German "Company's Land, thence 
by the same Xorth East one ILuidre<l and thirty two T'erches to a Corner of the said 
Michael Doderer Juniors other Land, thence by the same and by land of (Jeorge 
Philip Doderer South East one hundre<l and eighty two i)erches toa post thence by 
the sayd George Phillip Doderers Land South West one hundred and thirty two 
perches to the Place of beginning, containing one hundred and fifty Acres of Land. 
It Being the gayd one hundred and fifty acres of Land which John Penn, Thomas 
Penn and Richard Penn Esqrs. by their l^attent Bearing Datte the Twenty second 
Day of 3Iarch Anno Domini 1738 . . . Did . . . grant . . and Con- 

firm unto the said IMichael Doderer Senior ... as and by the sayd Pattent 
Recorded in Philadelphia in Pattent Book A Voll. 8, Page 199, . . ". appears 
. . . The other Tract Beginning at a Post in a Line of a Trakt of T.and Called the 
Germant Trakt & a corner of the sayd Michael Doderer Seniors other Land thence 
extending by the same South East one hundred and live perches to a Post thence V)y 
land of George Phillip Doderer north East Eighty one Perches to a Post thence by 
Vacant Land Xorth West one hundred and live perches to a Post in the aforesayd 
Line of the Gearman Trackt & Thence by the Same . . . South West Eighty one 
Perches to the place of Beginning Containing fifty Acres of Land and an Allowance 
Proportiona1)le to Six Acres pr. Cent for Roads ami Highways. It Being the sayd 
fifty acres of Land wich John Penn, Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Escjrs. by their 
Pattent Bearing Datte the Twentyeth Day of January Anno Domini 1736 ". . . 
Did . . . grant, Release and Contirm to Michael Doderer Senior ... as in 
and by the sayd Pattent Recorded in Philadelphia in Pattent Book A Voll. 8, Page 
169 . . . appears ... To have and to hold the above described To Trakts 
of Land . . . under the Proportionable Yearlv l^uit Rent hereafter accruing. 

MICHAEL DOTTERER [l. s.] 

lipr 

ANA MARY W DOTTERER [l. s.] 
mark 
Witnesses: Johannes Schmit, Fridrick Antes. 

Before Fridrick Antes, Justice. 
NOTES. 

Michael Dotterer (Michell Doderer), in March, 1724-5, joined his 

father, George Phihp Dodderer, his brother, Hieronimus Doderer, and 

upwards of twenty other residents of the neighborhood, in a petition for a 

road from Bebber's (Skippack) township to George Warner's mill, at the 

north end of Sprogell's great tract of 23,777 acres. 



Extract from a Statement of Rent payable by parties "Settled on 
Proprietaries Mannor at ^lanantawny per agreement of Isanc Norris. " 
(Manuscript in the archives of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania): 

"172 1 :Mich' Tuthrer at 10 bus' per ann p^ 20 bus'^ 

"due 30 \ has the wheat ready & will bring it as soon as 

j weather permits. 
"January 25, 173*. WM. BIDDLE. 

"To the Honb'e John Penn, Esq." 

The tract of one hundred acres purchased from John Henry Sprogell, 

May 4, 1726, part of the Great Tract, also called the Manatawny Tract, is 

referred to, without doubt, in the above statement. 

Michael Dotterer and his father, George Philip Dodderer, were peti- 
tioners for the erection of the township of Frederick, He signed his 
name — Hanns Michell Doderer. The petition was presented to the Jus- 
tices of the Quarter Sessions, at Phila(k'l})liia,the first day of March, 1730-31. 



40 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

In 1734, Michael Dotterer was rated for one hundred and fifty acres 
in Frederick township, Philadelphia county. 

Michael Dodderer, Jun. , and Jacob Nyce witnessed the will of Jno. 
Nice, of Frederick township, dated February 5, 1738/9. ("Jun." may 
here be used to distinguish him from a Michael Dodderer unknown to us. ) 

William Frey, Michael Doder, George Hiibner and Henry Antes were 
witnesses to the inventory of the estate late of John Nice, of Frederick 
township, deceased, exhibited June 1, 1743. 

Michael Dotterer was naturalized by act of Assembly passed May 19, 
1739, confirmed by the King in Council May 12, 1740. 

Second month 6, 1741, Michael Dotterer paid the Proprietaries quit 
rent on 50 acres in Frederick township, for 4 years in full, £0 8 4. 

Michael Dotterer, Bernhard Dotterer, George Yerger and Philip Hahn 
witnessed the will of Michael Krebs, of New Hannover township, dated 
January 10, 1744; and March 7, 1744, Michael Dodderer and Bernhard 
Dodderer appeared before Petei Evans, Register General, and proved the 
will. — 

Warrants for land were granted to Michael Dotterer, according to the 
Proprietaries' records, as follows: 

Michael Totherah, .50 acres in Philadelphia county, surveyed November 8, 1734. 
Michael Totherah, 100 acres in Bucks county, surveyed January 20, 1747. 
Michael Totherah, 100 acres in Bucks county, surveyed January 20, 1747. 
Michael Tothera, 20 acres in Bucks county, surveyed February 14, 1749. 

Phili}) Hahn and Michael Dotterer were executors of the estate of 
John Beener, tanner, of Falkner Swamp, who died in 1748. See Perkio- 
men Region, Volume Two, page 79; also Saur's Germantown newspaper, 
June and August, 1748. — 

Michael Totherah, Fe1)ruary 14, 1750, paid £5, on account of 20 
acres adjoining his other land on Trucker Creek in Bucks County. 

— — Penn Journals. 

March 2, 1752, INIichael Totherah paid Quit Rent on 150 acres, and 
on 50 acres, in Frederick township, 1 1 years, £3 7 0. 

In the tax list of Frederick township, for the year 1776, appears 
opposite the name of Michael Dotterer, Jr., son of our subject, this enum- 
eration: "220 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows; maintains his parents." Taking 
into consideration the reference, in the will of Michael Dotterer, to articles 
of agreement between himself and his son, Michael Dotterer. in connec- 
tion with the Avords "maintains his parents," we infer that the son 
assumed by agreement the maintenance and care of his parents during their 
natural lives, in exchange for compensation made in the transfer of the 
real estate to him by the father, under date of November 14, 1763. 



HIEROXIMUS DODEPvER. 41 

The original Patent for the fifty acres purchased from the Proprie- 
taries January 20, 1736, was in ])()Ssession of George S. Nyce, of Fred- 
erick, Pennsylvania, in 1S75. The wax seal, slightly hroken, was fas- 
tened hy ribbons to the parchment. 

The original Patent of Confirmation of the deed for one hundred and 
fifty acres granted by Hans Newes January 24, 1726, was, in 1878, in 
possession of George Mock, then a resident of New Hanover township. 
The greater part of the wax seal was broken off and lost. 

REFERENCES. 

Jacob Fisher, of New Goshenhoppeii. See Perkiomen Region, Volume One, 
page 6. 

The Great Tract of 22,377 Acres! — Frankfort Company's Land — The Manatawny 
Tract — The German Tract — Sprogell's Tract — The German Company's Land. See 
Perkiomen Region, Voknne One, page 98. 

New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church. See Rev. Dr. C. Z. Weiser'g Mono- 
graph of the New Goschenhoppen and Great Swamp Reformed Charge, 1882. See, 
also, Rev. Prof. Wm. J. Hinke's Record of Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge, 1731- 
1761, in Perkiomen Region, Volume Three, page 76, et seq. 



3. HIERONIMUS DODERER^ (George Philip Dodderer'). Born 
about 1701; married Catharine ; died in November, 1727. Children: 

19. Veronica Doderer% born January 7, 172-3. 

20. Agnes Doderer% born February 14, 1727. 

On the 16th day of January, 1728, letters of administration upon the 
estate of Hieronimus Doderer, deceased, were granted to his widow Cath- 
arine, who before this date had married ]\Iichael Krause. The sureties 
on the administration bond were John Greathouse, Balthus Fauts and 
Michael Krause. 

LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 
Whereas Heironimus Dodorer lately dyed Intestate (as is affirmed) having 
whilst he lived & at the time of his Death divers Rights & Creditts within the said 
Province & County & By means whereof the full disposition & Power of granting the 
Administration of all & singular the goods Rights & creditts of the said Dec'ed and 
also the auditing the accounts calculations & Reconings of the said Administration & 
a finall Dismission of the same to me is manifestly known to belong I Desiring that 
the goods Rights & Creditts which were of the said Dece<l may he well ife truly ad- 
ministered converted & Disposed of to pious uses Do hereby grant unto you the said 
Catherine Grouse (in whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide) full power 
by the tenor of these presents to administer the goods chattels Rights & Creditts 
which were of the said Do'-^'Do within the said Province & County and also to ask 
collect, Levy Recover & Receive the Creditts whatsoever of the said Do'^'Do which 
at the time of his Death were owing or to him did any way belong & to pay the deltts 
in which the said Do'-^Do stood obliged so far forth as y« said goods Rights c'^t 
Creditts will extend according to the Rate & order of Law especially of well & truly 
administering the goods Rights & Creditts of the said Do"-^Do & making a true & 
perfect Inventory thereof & exhibiting the same into the Reg' Generall's ofhce at 
Philadelphia at or before the sixteenth day of ffel)ruary next and rendering a true & 



42 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Just account calculation or Reconing of the said administration at or before the 
seventeenth day of January one thousand seven hundred & twenty-nine. And I Do 
by these Presents Ordain, Constitute and Depute you the said Catherine Grouse ad- 
ministratrix of all & singular the goods Chattel Is Rights & Creditts which were of 
the said Do°^Do within the Limits aforesaid saving harmless & forever Indemnifying 
one & all other officers against all other persons by reason of your administration 
aforesaid & saving to all others their Rights. In Testimony Whereof I have here- 
unto sett my Hand & seal of Office at Philad" the sixteenth day of January In the 
year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & twenty eight. 

PET. EVANS, Reg. Gen". 

INVENTORY. 
The inventory filed in Court bears two endorsements: "Inventary of 
the Estate of Hieronimiis Dodorer, Dec'd. Published 16 Jany 1728," 
and "The Invitory of the Estate of the Widdow Dodoroh," and is as 
follovv^s: 

AN INVITORY 

of the Estate of Uronomuss Dodorer, Deceased Late of the County of Philadelphia, 
in the Province of Pencelveania. 

£ s. d. 

1 pair of Leather briches at 5 Shillings 00 : 05 : 00 

1 homespun Suit of Drugget at 40 Shillings 02 : 00 : 00 

1 Broad Cloth Vest at 00 : 10 : 00 

1 felt Hatt at 00 : 01 : 06 

1 Pair of Spatter Dashes at 00 : 02 : 00 

1 ]\Iare and a horse Colt at 06 : 00 : 00 

1 Black Horse at 5 Pound 05 : 00 : 00 

1 Chestnut colloured Mare at 5 Pound 05 : 00 : 00 

1 Bay horse at 5 pound ten Shillings 05 : 10 : 00 

1 Brindle Cow at 2 pound 15 Shillings 02 : 15 : 00 

1 Bay Colt at 02 : 00 : 00 

1 Black Colt at 01 : 05 : 00 

1 Red Cow at 02 : 05 : 00 

1 Red Heifer at 02 : 00 : 00 

1 Spotted Heifer at • 01 : 10 : 00 

3 Sheep at 00 : 18 : 00 

3 Piggs at 00 : 09 : 00 

1 Plow and Plow Tackling at 01 : 08 : 00 

1 Saddle and two Bridles at 00 : 10 : 00 

to a Dutch Addez and a broad ax at 00 : 09 : 00 

1 Grubbing and 2 rings and 5 wedges at 00 : 08 : 06 

1 Ax and broad hough and a Drawing Knife at 00 : 05 : 06 

1 Iron Pott at 00 : 13 : 00 

1 Little Iron Pott at 00 : 05 : 00 

1 half Barrel at 00 : 01 : 06 

1 Little Cagg at 00 : 01 : 00 

a Cutting Box and Knive at 00 : 10 : 00 

5 Bushels of Barley at 00 : 15 : 02 
40 Bushel unthreshed Wheat at 04 : 16 : 08 
15 Bushels of Clean Wheat at 02 : 00 : 00 

the Green Corn and the Improvements 56 Pounds 56 : 00 : 00 

18 Pound in Money 18 : 00 : 00 

6 Pound due to the Estate 06 : 00 : 00 



128 : 09 : 00 



HIERONIMUS DODERER. 43 

A true and Perfect Account Given ]>y us Jnlm Pawling and William Woodley 
Appraisers of the said Estate as Wittness our hands this 4t}i day of January, 172|. 

JN<)." PAWLING 
WILLIAM WOEDLE 
At the same time was filed this statement: 

the Debt of Heronnuis Dndrer Ny Hannover township in the county of Phila- 
delphia and Province of Pensilvania Decased November 1727. 

to Anthony Hincell in Hannover township 00 : 12 : 00 

to Johannes Percebil in the said township 00 : 06 : 06 

to Peter Rife in Bobyery township 00 : 13 : 09 

to Cristian Statler in hannover township 00 : 02 : 06 

to William Woodle in Liml)ric townsliiii 06 : 19 : 00 

to Ellse Elizabeth in (Tarmantown • 01 : 04 : 00 

to Ludwidg Sprogle in Philadelphia 01 : 05 : 00 

to Thomas Rutter in Philadelidua 00 : 06 : 06 

to Michell Herger of hannover township 00 : 09 : 00 

to Joseph Groofe Ny hannover township 00 : 06 : 00 

to Michell Grouse of hannover township 03 : 00 : 00 

to John Palling of Babry township 03 : 07 : 00 

to hans Senseman of hannover 00 : 06 : 00 

to A. Shomacer 00 : 07 : 00 

to George Pillip Dodrer Ny hannover township 00 : 12 : 06 

to Bastian Raffsnider of hannover township 00 : 11 : 04 

to A. Shomacer Garmentown 00 : 01 : 06 

to George Holebach in Hannover township 00 : 01 : 06 

to Christophel foonck in Garmentown 00 : 03 ; 00 



20 : 14 : 01 
her 

CATHARINE C.K. KRAUSE. 

mark 

The foregoing inventory indicates that Hieronimus Doderer was a 
young farmer of considerable importance for those times. He had no 
lack of horses and cattle, and grain and money, and of farming imple- 
ments he had a limited supply, but no wagon or carriage appears in the 
list of his possessions. There is no clue to the location of his farm; appar- 
ently he did not own it. At the date of his death Hanover and Limerick 
townships had been erected, but not Frederick township. There are no 
church records to which we can turn for information about the young 
settler. He was, we may safely assume, attached to Falkner Swamp 
Reformed congregation, of which his father was an officer. This congre- 
gation was organized in 1725 by John Philip Boehm, who was its pastor 
until 1748, but its records were kept in a private book by the pastor, and 
they are lost. 

Catharina Doderer, widow of Hieronimus Doderer, shortly after her 
husband's death, married Michael Krause. Her maiden name does not 
appear in the meagre records at hand. The children of Michael and 
Catharina Krause were: 

George Krause, born about 1729; confirmed a member of New Han- 
over Lutheran church, April 8, 1750, aged 21; married Christina Singer. 



44 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Mary Kraiise, married Peter Smith. 

Elizabeth Krause, born alwiit 1734; confirmed April 8, 1750, aged 16. 

Salome Krause, born about 1736; confirmed April 8, 1750, aged 14; 
married, April 18, 1754, John Michael Renn. 

Catharina Krause, married Jacob Beltz. 

Michael Krause, buried, January 3, 1797, at Leidig's graveyard. 
He was lame. 

Daniel Krause. 

Octol)er 9, 1728, Michael Kraus bought of Humphrey Morrey and 
John Budd, 170 acres of land, on the banks of Swamp creek, lying mostly 
or wholly within the limits of" Frederick township as afterwards erected. 
In 1734 he was taxed in Frederick township for 150 acres; in 1769, for 
150 acres, a grist mill, 4 horses and 4 horned cattle; in 1774, for 150 
acres, a grist mill, and one servant; in 1776 he was assessed for 150 acres, 
2 horses, 3 cows, ^ a grist mill; aged, and a crippled son and childish 
wife; in 1785, he was a taxable in Frederick township. He died Decem- 
ber 11, 1797, and is buried in Leidig's graveyard. The date of his wife's 
death is not known. 

NOTES. 

Hieronimus is the Latin for Jerome. In the few records we have 
this name is written in various ways: Hieronimus, Uronomiss and Eron- 
emus, and in one case tradition renders it Griinimus. 

Hironimus Doderer is one of a number of names signed to the peti- 
tion dated March, 172f for a road from Bebber's township to George 
Warner's mill, in Sprogell's Tract. 

Veronica Doderer and Agnes Doderer, daughters of Hieronimus Dod- 
erer, made matrimonial alliances with prominent farmers of Falkner Swamp 
— the former was the wife of Philip Yost; the latter, of Jost Bitting. 



4. BARBARA DODDERERS (George Philip Dodderer^). Born 
about 1704; married, Februar}^ 13, 1722, Jacob Markley; died, in Skip- 
pack, Philadel])hia (now Montgomery) county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 
1738. Jacob Markle}^, son of Al:)raham and Anna Veronika Merkle, of 
Bonfeld, near Heilbronn, in A\^irtemberg, was born .July 11, 1701; died, 
in the township of Perkiomen and Skippack, Philadelphia (now Mont- 
gomery) county, August 29, 1784. Children: 

21. Abraham Markley', born August 12, 1723. 

22. Phihp Markley% born August 27, 1725. 

23. Markley' (a daughter), born on New Year's Day, 

1727; died soon after. 

24. Isaac Markley', born May 24, 1729. 



BARBARA DODDERER. 45 

25. Veronica Markley% born A])v\\ 1. 1732. 

26. Rebecca Markley'', born about 17-")4. 

27. Christina Marklcy% born May 27, 1736. 

28. Catharine Markley', bc^n >biy 9, 1738. 

.Jacob ]\rarkley married (second) l'):n-l)ara Ransch. born A]n'il 14, 
1714. Children: 

Eleanor jNFarkley, born Fel)rnaiy 5, 1741; confirmed a member of 
Providence Lutheran church June 1, 1760; married Tobias Boganer. 

Elizabeth Markley, married Paulus Benner. 

Mary Magdalena Markley, born November 9, 1744. 

l^arbara ISIarkley, born October 6, 1746; married, by license issued 
March 28, 1772, .John Smith. 

Hannah Markley, confirmed at Providence lAitlieran church in the 
year 1770, aged 18; married, January 11, 1774, Jacol) Brotzman. 

As early as the 3^ear 1725 we find the name of Jacob Miirckley — so 
he wrote it— signed to a petition for a road in the Skippack region. 

July 17, 1728, Jacob Markley purchased of Jost Heydt, 100 acres in 
Philadelphia county, and November 28, 1728, he bought of Nicholas 
Scull 132 acres in Bebber's township. These tracts were located in the 
limits of the present East Perkiomen township. A portion of the planta- 
tion was owned (1884) by Jacob J. Markley, a great-great-grandson. In 
1734, Jacob INIarkle is reported as a taxable of Perkiomen and Skippack 
township, o^niing 200 acres. First month 13, 1731, Jacob Markley paid 
quit rent for 382 acres of land in Bebber's township (the original name of 
Perkiomen and Skippack township), £1 12 4, in full. In the census 
taken June 5, 1756, of "Pavkiomen c^^ Skippaake" township, he is returned 
thus: Jacob Marcly, liousekeeper; occupation, farmer; 4 children under 
21; acres owned, 150 — 50 acres cleared, 15 acres sowed with corn; 1 horse; 
3 horned cattle. In 1769, his proprietary tax was £15 5 4, on 150 acres, 
1 horse, 3 horned cattle. In 1776, he was rated on 150 acres, 1 horse, 3 
horned cattle. In 1781 he was assessed, in Skippack township, for Effective 
Supply Tax £4 10 0, on a valuation of £300, and, in 1782, £1 15 4 on 
a valuation of £225 0. In 1783, his name appears in the Federal tax 
list, ''Jacob Markley' s estate, 100 acres," indicating that he had relin- 
(piished farming and rented his property. 

Jacob Markley' s property lay along the Skii)}iack road, and his 
homestead stood near this historic highway, about one and a half miles 
below Pennypacker's Mills, on Perkiomen creek. On Nicholas Scull's 
map of 1759, the word "Markly" designates a house built on land pre- 
viously owned by him. That he was a large farmer and an influential citi- 
zen is evident. In the newspapers of his time is found occasional reference 
to him. In July, 1776, a horse was stolen from him. He inserted an 
advertisement offering a reward for its recovery in two leading papers. 
In the Pennsylvania Gazette of July 31, 1776, we find: 



46 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY, 




five ipounbe 1Rcwar^♦ 

QTOLEN from the su))scril)er, living in Perki- 
*^ omen township, Philadelphia county, the 
12th of July inst., at night a Strawberry-roan 
HORSE, 9 years old, about 16 hands high, with 
a white star in his forehead, paces and trots, 
carries lofty, was shod on one of his fore feet. 
Whoever takes up the said horse and thief, and 
secures them, so that the thief may be brought 
to justice, and the owner may have the horse 
again, shall have the above reward for both, or 
Three Pounds for the horse only, and reason- 
able charges, paid by JACOB MERKLEY. 

In Henry Miller's Staatsbote he inserted this: 

ffunf lPflm^ Bclobnuno. 

Den 13ten July, 1776. 

CS ist letzten Nacht dem Ends- 
benamten, wohnhaft in Perki- 

onien Taunschip, in Philadelphia 
Count}', ein roth-rohn Pferd gestohlen worden. 
Es ist 9 Jahr alt, bey 16 Hand hoch, hat einen 
Stern vorm Kopf, geht den Pass und Trat, und 
tragt den Kopf hoch, war nur an einem Vorder- 
fuss beschlagen. Wer gemeldetes Pferd und 
den Dieb aufnumme, und so verwahrt, dass der 
Dieb rechtlicht belangt werden kan und der 
Eigner das Pferd wdeder bekommet, soil obige 
Belohnung von Fuenf Pfund fuer beyde haben, 
Oder Drey Pfund fuer das Pferd allein, nebst 
Erstattung billiger Kosten, von 

JACOB MERKLEY. 

HIS WILL. 

Jacob Markley, of Skippack and Perkiomen township, 3^eoman, 
under date of June 10, 1779, made his will. It was quite a formidable 
jjaper. After making provision for his widow, he directed that after his 
daughter Elianor, wife of Tobias Boganer, was paid the sum of five shil- 
lings, the proceeds of his estate should be divided into eleven parts, to be 
distributed as follows: One share to his son Abraham; one share to his 
son Phili}); one share to his son Isaac; one share to the five children of 
his daughter Vronica; one share to his daughter Christianna, wife of 
William Antes; one share to his daughter Elizabeth Benner; one share to 
his daughter Barl:)arah, wife of John Smith; one share to his daughter 
Rebekah, wife of Frederick Isaac; one share to his daughter Hannah, wife 
of Jacol) Prutzman; one share to his daughter Cater ine; one share to his 
sons Abraham and Isaac in trust, only for the use of his daughter Elianor 
Boganor; in case of the death of her husband, before her death, to be 



BARBAPvA DODDKPvER. 47 

paid to her; if she died before her liushnml, t]ien her chihh-en ti) have it; 
Abraham Markley and Isaac Markley, sons of the testator, were appoint- 
ed executors. Witnesses to the will — \A'illiam Penebacer and Jacob 
Markley (cordwainor). The will was ])rov('n January 24, 1785. 

HIS FAMILY ini'.LK. 

The Bible owned by Jacob ^hirklcy was printed at Nuremberg in 
1725. It is illustrated with numerous small pictures, at the beginning of 
each Book is given a history of that Book, and remarks follow im})ortant 
verses. It contains a lengthy family record, written by Jacob Markley, 
the original owner, Philip Markley, his son, and George Boyer, a later 
descendant. In the year 1884, this Bible was exhibited at the Mont- 
gomery County centennial celebration at Norristown. On a fly-leaf at its 
beginning is a short account of the successive owners of the ancient 
volume, as follows: 

Thii* Bil)le was originally the property of Jacob Markley, — From whom it de- 
scended to his son Philip, — After whose death it became the property of John Zieber, 
intermarried with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of said Philip Markley. 

And after the decease of said John Zieber and wife it became the property of 
John Boyer, a grandson of said John Zieber (March 13, 1830)— (said John Boyer 
being eldest son of Mary (Maria) eldest daughter of said John Zieber,. who was 
intermarried with George Boyer, a son of George Boyer, of Frederick township, 
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. 

The present owner of the Bil)le is John Markley Hartman, M. E., of 
Mount Airy, Philadelphia. 

CHURCH CONXKCTION. 

Jacob Markley and family were connected with the Providence 
(Trappe) Lutheran church. In a list dated the 27th of November, 1760, 
is the name of Jacob Merckle, as a contributor of 10 shillings toward the 
salary of Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg, pastor of that congregation. 

In the record of the Providence (Tra{)pe) Lutheran church occur the 
following entries: 

Anna Barbara, daughter of Jat-ob Merckel and wife, l)orn 6th October, 1746, was 
baptized 29th March, 1747; godparents, Abraham Merckel and wife. 

April 7, 1751, in Providence, was confirmed: Veronica Merckelin, Jacob 
Merckels tochter 19 Jahr alt. Kan etwas lesen. 

June 1, 1760, was confirmed: Nella des Jacob Merckels tochter bey 17 Jahr alt. 

In the year 1770 was confirmed: Hanna ^lercklin Jacob's daughter. 18. 

1751, April 30. Georg Schwenck and Veronica Merckelin, Jacob Merckel's 
daughter, were married. 

1757, July 13. Christian Brenneman and Catharina Merckelin, Jacob Merckle's 
daughter, were married. 

Jacob ]\lerckel and wife Bar})ara were sponsors for Jacob, son of Jurg Schwenck 
and wife Euphronica; born 7th June, baptized 3rd August, 1755. 

JACOB markley' S ANCESTRY. 

Jacob Markley, born July 11, 1701, was the son of Abraham and 
Veronika Merkle, of Bonfeld, district of Heilbi-onn, Wurtemberg. 



48 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Abraham Merkle, father of Jacob Markley, was born March 1, 1664, 
and was the son of Jorg (George) Merklin and Eva, his wife, of Wimpfen 
am Berg, in the grand-duchy of Hesse, not far from Heilbronn. 

A clue to Jacob Markley' s ancestors in German was found in this 
way: George Paul Merckel came to Pennsylvania in 1775. In a news- 
paper in Philadelphia, February 21, 1775, he gave notice that it was his 
purpose to return to his home in Germany, which he stated was Wimpfen. 
Upon the discovery of this advertisement, in 1885, John Markley Hart- 
man, M. E., of Mount Airy, Philadelphia, opened a coriespondence with 
the pastor at Wimpfen, which resulted in the examination of the church 
records at Wimpfen and Bonfeld, jjlaces not far apart, and in the con- 
struction of a genealogical table by Pastor Schumann, the Evangelical 
pastor of the State Church at Bonfeld. It was ascertained that George 
Paul Merckel was the son of Andreas Jeremias Merckle, who was- a 
brother of our Jacob Markley; consequently, George Paul Merckel was a 
nephew of our Jacob Markley. The genealogical table was published 
under the title Stammtafel der Familie Merkle (Merklin), and may be 
consulted in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia. 

NOTES. 

Among the historical exhibits at the Montgomery County Centennial 
celebration at Norristown, Pa., in 1884, were deeds for land purchased b}^ 
Jacob Markley and a quit-rent receipt, dated 1732, for money paid by 
him to the Penn government. 

On July 1, 1786, the executors of the estate of Jacob Markley, de- 
ceased, sold to Jacob Markley (cordwainer), 152 acres of land, part of 
the decedent's plantation. — 

The places of Barbara Dodderer's and Jacob Markley' s burial have, 
notwithstanding diligent search and inquiry, not been ascertained. 

REFERENCE. 

Bebber'8 Township — Skippack. See Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker's Historical 
and Biographical Sketches. "In 1702 began the settlement on the Skippack." 

5. BERNHARD DODDERERS (George Philip Dodderer^). Born 

in Europe, about 1706; married (first) Gertrude ; married (second), 

Christina Elizabeth Dewees, widow of Henry Antes; died in New Han- 
over township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, Pa., early in 
1758. Chri.stiana Elisabetha Dewees, daughter of William DeWees and 
Catrina Meelsj his wife, was born in Pennsylvania, al)out 1702; married 
(first) at Whitemarsh, Philadelphia county, by Rev. John Philip Boehm, - 
February 2, 1726, Henry Antes; married (second) about 1757, Bernhard 
Dodderer; died, in Northumberland county. Pa., October 5, 1782, aged 
80. Children of Bernhard and Gertrude Dodderer: wl^^^ 



BERNIIARD DODDERER. 49 

29. Philip Doddel•el■^ 

30. Anna Dodderer'. 

31. Jacob Dodderer', born September 30, 1733. 

32. Bernhard Dotterer', born March 31, 1736. 

33. Henry Dotterer^ born INFay 28, 1739. 

34. EUzabeth Dotterer ', born October 4, 1742. 

35. Isaac Dotterer', l)orn about January 15, 1745. 

August 10, 1727, Bernhard Dodderer (under the name Barne Dou- 
dera ) ]»urchased of Lodwich Christian Sprogell, two hundred acres of 
land, ])art of the Great Tract of 22,377 acres. This property was located 
half a mile northwest of the present New Hanover Square, in New Han- 
over township, Montgomery county. Pa., and about two miles northwest 
of his father's ])lantation. It is at the eastern limits of the fertile Falkner 
■S\vami>, the valley drained by Swamp creek. It was part of the one 
thousand acres granted by John Henry Sprogell to Rev, Evan Evans, in 
two tracts, viz: July 11, 1713, six hundred acres, to be known as Rhyd y 
Carw (the Deer's Tail), and July 30, 1713, four hundred acres, to be known 
as Treveglwys (Church Town). August 19, 1725, the executors of the 
estate of Evan Evans granted both tracts to Lodwich Christian Sprogell. 
In the conveyance to Evan Evans, Swamp creek is called Neechin creek. 

Young Bernhard Dodderer owned this property less than a year and 
certainly he had scarcely completed his primitive dwelling and farm 
buildings, when the neighborhood was thrown into a state of excitement 
and alarm, by a threatened attack from the Indians upon the settlers of 
Falkner Swamp. A petition, dated April y" 29, 1728, was hurriedly cir- 
culated and signed by the principal residents of Falkner Swamp and 
adjoining localities, asking the Governor for protection against the hostile 
savages. The language of the petition, which follows, shows plainly the 
foreliodings of the terror-stricken frontiersmen: 

To tlie llon'"al)le Patrik Gordon Esq'' Govern'' 

the Province of Pensilvania Ac". 
The Petion of the ffrontier Tnhahitaiits of y" County of 
Pliiladelphia }iunil)ly Slievveth 

Whereas Your Petitioners are at Present So Alarm 'd l)y a Noise of y'' 
Indians, That Several Families have Left their Plantations with what 
Effects they Could Possibly Carry away Women in Child bed being forced 
to Expose Them selves to y*" Coldness of y" Air whereby Their lives are 
In Danger. We your Petitioners Therefore hun)bly Pray That Your Hon' 
would Be Pleased To Take or ITse Such Measures with y'^ Indians That 
your Petitioners may be freed from These Alarms. Eor Yet we are In- 
form' d That The Indians are Consulting Measures against us. We hope 
your Hon' will Comply With our Humble Request To prevent as well our 
fears as Danger. And yo' Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever 
pray &c''. 
Ap. y^ 29, 1728. 



50 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Baniy Dodrer was one of the seventy-five signers to tlie petition. 
Of the near neighbors of Bernhard Dodderer who subscribed their names 
to the request were Friederich Antes, Henrich Antes, Elias Aff, Jacob 
Hermann, Henrich Bitting, Adam Herman, Andreas Bossert, John 
Bohner, Martin Bitting, Georg Geiger, Bastian Reiffschneider, Johannes 
Eschliach, Martin Zendler, Daniel Schoner, Vallentin Geiger, Christian 
Aiyster, Johannes Schneider, Mattes Ringer, Adam Spangler, Jacob 
Kraus, Ludwig Borkhart, George Hollebach. Apparently immediate 
relief was not sent; for three weeks later, May 20, 1728, another petition, 
signed by seventy-seven persons, residents of Salford, Bebber's, Provi- 
dence and other townships, was sent to the Governor. In the latter peti- 
tion the statement is made: "We have sufered and Is Like to Sufer By 
the Ingeans; they have fell upon y'' Back Inlinbitors a])0ut Falkners 
Swam 13 & New Coshahopen." 

In the minutes of the Provincial Council, held at the Indian town of 
Conestoga, May 26, 1728, printed in Colonial Reconls Volume III, 
page 312, is an account of the cause of these troubles. Governor Patrick 
Gordon said to the whites and Indians present: 

About eighteen Days ginee I received an express from the Iron works at ]\Iahan- 
atawny, acquainting me that Eleven foreign Indians, painted for AVar, & armed with 
Guns, Pistoles and Swords, were come amongst our Inhabitants, plundering them tt 
taking away their Provisions by Force, whereupon some of our People, to the num- 
ber of seventy men, with Arms, went to speak to them Civilly, but the Indians fired 
upon them & wounded some of them; Our men likewise hred on the Indians i^ 
wounded some of them also, but the Indians fired fii'st. It was very ill done to fire. 

As soon as I had this Account I took horse and went to Mtihanatawny with 
several Gentlemen of Philadelphia, but the Indians were gone off. I foinid our 
People believed there were more coming, and therefore some Hundreds mett to- 
gether with their Arms to defend themselves in case the Indians should attack them. 

As I was returning home I heard news that grieved me exceedingly. I was told 
that two or three furious men amongst us had killed three or four Indian Friends & 
hurt two Girls. I went back mciurning, & sent out ^len to take the Murtherers, who 
were accordingly taken, & they are now in Irons in a Dungeon to be tried l)y the 
Laws of the Great King of all the English, as if they had Killed so many of his own 
Subjects. 

Here we have a vivid picture of the life of the pioneer. However, a 
new treaty of peace was made with the Indians. No further depredations 
occurred. Confidence was restored, and the development of the new 
country proceeded. 

June 19, 1730, Bernard Dodera, of Hanover township, and Gertrude, 
his wife, sold to Paul Hill, of the same place, cooper, seventy-six acres 
and twenty-two perches, part of the foregoing tract. 

In the list of taxables of Hanover township for 1734, is rated- Barni- 
bus Tothero, 100 acres. 

By act of Assembly, passed May 19, 1739, and confirmed by the 
King's Council May 12, 1740, Bernhard Dotterer was naturalized. 



BERNHARD DODDERER. 51 

A PROJECTED SCHOOL. 

In 1754 a benevolent movement was started in England, by the 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and for the education of the 
Germans in America, having for its object the oi)ening of English schools 
taught by English schoolmasters, in several districts in Pennsylvania. 
Falkner Swamp was selected as a suitable German settlement for one of 
these schools. A petition for the school here was signed on the part of 
the Reformed church members by John Philip Leidig, V. D. M., Bernard 
Dodderer, Conrad Dodderer, John Miller, Dieter Bucher, George Palz- 
graff, Valentine Kyle, Jacob Bernard, Andrew Smith, Frederick Reymer 
and Henr}' Smith. Whether this project was put into effect at Falkner 
Swamp is uncertain. 

HIS SECOND MARRIAGE. 

Gertrude, wife of Bernhard Dodderer, whose maiden name we do not 
know, died in the prime of life. In the Spring of 1757, an engagement 
of marriage was entered into by Bernhard Dodderer, widower, and Chris- 
tiana Antes, widow of Henry Antes. Preceding the marriage, on May 27, 
1757, an agreement was made between the parties, the preamble to which 
is: Whereas a Marriage is intended and by God's permission shortly to 
be had and solemnized by and between the said Bernard Totterer and 
Christiana Antes, and the said Christiana is willing with the consent of 
the said Bernard to convey and assign over all her part and Interest in 
her former Husband's Estate unto her son Frederick Antes. This con- 
tract is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Montgomery 
county, at Norristown, Pa. 

Christiana Antes was the daughter of William DeWees, paper maker, 
on the Wissahickon. He was a native of Leeuwarden, province of Fries- 
land, in the Netherlands, and came to this country, a lad of thirteen, with 
his family, who landed at New York about 1GS9. Henry Antes, the first 
husband of Christiana DeWees, was a native of Freinsheim, in the Palati- 
nate of the Rhine, where he was born July 17, 1701. In Pennsylvania 
he became widely known as a man of affairs. He settled in Frederick 
toAvnship, and lived on his farm there, except during the period of his 
connection with the Moravian community, at Bethlehem, as their business 
manager. In religious matters he was remarkably active; so much so 
that he became known as the Pious Lavman of Frederick-town. He died 
at his Frederick township home July 20, 1755, and was buried in the 
family burial lot on his own farm. 

The auspicious union of these two persons, of near the same middle 
age, occupying similar desirable stations in life, with comfortable sur- 
roundings, as regards children, friends, experience and means — was des- 
tined to be of short duration. In January, 1758, he was weak in body; 
but what his ailment is not known. Feeling that his days on earth were 
few, he sent for Nicholas Bunn to draw his last will and testament, and for 



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THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 



his neighbors, Philip Hahn and John ZoUer, to witness its execution. 
He died soon after this, for the will was probated less than three months 
from the date of its draught. By the terms this instrument — whi{!h is 
simple, clear and wise — little was necessary to be done, beyond the selling 
of his personal property and its distribution. His widow prob,;bly made 
her home with her sons, William Antes and Frederick Antes, both men of 
influence, the former residing in New Hanover township, the latter in 
Frederick township, on the Antes homestead. In later life she resided in 
Northumberland county, whither her son, Colonel Frederick Antes, moved 
during the Revolutionary war, or immediately after its close, and there 
she died, as already stated. 

HIS WILL. 

In the Name of God, Amen, I Bernhani Dodorow of New Hanover Townxhiji & 
County of Philailelphia, Yeoman beinjj weak in body ])ut of a sound and dispo.sing 
mind and memory Blessed be God Dolors Day therefore do this twentieth day of 
January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty eight, make 
and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in the following manner First and Prim-ible 
I recomniand my soul to Almighty God who Gave it and my Eo<ly to lie Decently 
Buried at a Christian Like manner, first it is my Will that all my just Debts & Funeral 
Charges be paid by my Executors hereinafter named out of my personal estate, Item, 
I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Phillip Dodorow the full sum of One hun- 
dred Pounds Lawful money of which he hath already reced the sum of Seventy 
pounds in my Lifetime & & the remainder which is Thirty pounds shall be paid unto 
him by my son herein after named Isaac Dodorow when my s'' son Phillip Erives to 
the age of Forty years. Item I give & Becjueath unto my son Jacob Dodorow the 
full sum of One Hundred Pounds Lawful ]Money to be pai<l unto him in three pay- 
ments, That is tf) say, the sum of Twenty five pounds when he Erives tf) the age of 
Twenty six years &c., Twenty five jiounds more thereof when he Erives to the age 
of thirty years & Fiftj' pounds the residue thereof when he Erives to the age of Forty 
years &c. to be paid unto him by my son Barnhard Dodorow Hereinafter named. 
Item, I Give & Betpieath unto my son Henry Dodorow the full sum of One Hundred 
pounds Lawfull Money to l)e paid unto him in three payments, That is to say, the 
sum of Twenty five pounds when he Erives to the age of Twenty six years and 
Twenty five pound more thereof when he erives to the age of Thirty years & Fifty 
Pound the residue thereof when he Erives to the age of Forty years to be paid unto 
him l)y my son Isaac Dodorow: Item, I give tt Bequeath unto my Daughter Eliza- 
beth Dodorow the full sum of one Hundred Pounds Lawfull Money to be paid unto 
her in three payments that is to say, the sum of Twenty five pounds when she Erives 
to the age of Twenty six years & Twenty five pounds more thereof when she Erives 
to the age of Thirty years & Fifty pounds the residue thereof when she Erives to the 
age of Forty years, to be paid unto her by my son Bernhard Dodorow, & further it is 
my will that my sd son Bernhard Dodorow shall give unto my said Daughter Eliza- 
beth One Milcks Cow & a Chest & a Bed & Furniture thereunto Belonging when she 
Erives to the age of Twenty years if she Desires it & the Cost thereof shall be Deduct- 
ed out of her first payment of Twenty five pounds &. c. further I Give &. Bequeath 
unto my s'* Daughter Elizabeth my Wimin saddle. Item I give & Bequeath unto my 
three Grand Children Late of my Daughter Ann Deced late wife to George Neyes 
the sum of Fifty pounds Lawful money to be paid unto them as followeth (viz') the 
sum of Twenty pounds unto my Grant son John Neyes to be paid unto him in Two 
payments Ten pound to be paid unto him when he Erives to the age of Thirty years 



BERNHAKD DODDERER. 53 

& Ten pounds the residue thereof when he erives to the age of Forty years, and 
Twenty pounds to my Grant son Joseph Neyes to 1)e paid unto him in Two payments 
as afores'', and Ten pounds to my Grant Daughter Mary Neyes to be paid unto her 
when she Erives to the age of Thirty years which s'' payments to my s** Grant Chil- 
dren shall be paid imt<i them l>y my son Bernhard Dodorow. Item I give & Be- 
queath unto my son in Law George Neyes One English Shilling to be ])aid unto him 
by my sd son Bernhard Dodorow one month after my Decease. Item I give and 
Bequeath unto my son Isaac Dodorow the one full half part of my plantation whereon 
I now Live which shall be Devided in the middle through the length thereof on a 
straight course & he shall have the one half part on the North West side of my sd 
plantation Joyning to Land now belonging to George Phalzgrove and also I give & 
Be(iueath unto my sd son Isaac Dodorow fifty acres of Wood Land Joyning to Conrad 
Smith Land & George Lleebners Land & George Neyes Land situate in new hanover 
Township afsd. To hold to him the sd Isaac Dodorow the sd Two Tracts of Land 
above ^Mentioned with the appurtenances thereunto belonging his Heirs & Assigns 
for Ever as soon as he Erives to the age of Twenty j'ears he paying or Causing to be 
paid the aforesaid sum of One hundred & Thirty pounds at such Times as is herein 
before appointed for payment thereof t^ to such of my other Children as is herein 
before mentioned, also I will and do order that my son Bernhard Dodorow shall 
give unto my son Isaac Dodorow a new Plantation Waggon with new Tire t*I: two 
Horses at the value of Twenty live Pound and two mileks Cows & a plough & plough 
Irons ct all the Gears Belonging to Two Horses as soon as my sd son Isaac Dodorow 
Erives to the age of Twenty years, and also I give & Bequeath unto my sd son Isaac 
Dodorow my Clock with the Case thereto Belonging c^ my new Saddle to be Deliver- 
ed to him at his age of Twenty years by my son Barnhard Dodorow. Item I give 
& Becpieath unto my son Beruharil Dodorow the other half part of my plantation 
whereon I now live which is the South East side of my sd plantation where the 
Buildings is erected on Joyning Phillip Hann's Land & Thomas George's Land t^ 
fifty acres of Woodland Joyning this Tract c^t Phillip Hanu's Land & Joast Freyer's 
Land. To hold to him the sd Barnhard Dodorow the Two above mentioned Tracts 
of Land with the Buildings & Appurtenances thereunto belonging his Heirs ifc 
Assigns forever, he the sd Barnhard paying or Causing to be paid therefore the sum 
of two hundred & Fifty pounds at such Times as is herein before appointed for jKiy- 
ment thereof ct to such of my other Children as is herein before mentioned & shall 
have the use of the other half {lart of my sd I'lantation untill my sd son Isaac 
Dodorow Erives to his age of Twenty years but shall not sow nor Till the Land more 
then usel. Also I give tt Bequeath unto my sd son Bernhard Dodorow all my per- 
sonal Estate whatsoever Excepting my Household Goods which shall be justly ap- 
praised & the half part of the appraisement shall be paid unto my son Isaac Dodorow 
when he Erives at the age of Twenty years l)y my son Barnhard Dodorow iV: all the 
remainder of my personal Estate I give and be<jueath unto my sd son Barnhard 

Dodorow he paying or causing to be paid all my Just which I shall owe at the 

Time oi my Decease. Together with my Funural Charges and Excepting what is 
Belonging to my well beloved wife herein after named and what he nuist give unto 
my son Isaac Dodorow at his age (jf Twenty years. Item I give c*i: Bequeath unto 
my well Beloved wife Christiana Dodorow the sum of Twenty shillings yearly Dur- 
ing her Natural Life to be paid unto her by my son Barnhard Dodorow Yearly if 
she requires it, and also that my said wife Christiana shall have all the Goods i*i 
Cows whatsoever she Brought to me, again for her one use forever as it is Mentioned 
in an agreement made between us; And I make ct Ordain my Son Isaac Dodorow 
sole Executor of this my Will in Trust for the Intents <,t purposes in this my Will 
Contained and I make my Two Sons Philip Dodorow and Jacob Dodorow Overseers 
of this my Will to Take Care & See the same performed according to my true Intent 



54 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

& Meaning: In Witness Whereof, I the sd Barnhard Dodorow have to tins my Last 
Will & Testament set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year first above written. 

BERND DODDERER I seal 



Signed Sealed & Delivered by the sd Barnhard Dodorow as & for his Last Will 
& Testament in the i)resence of us, who were present at the signing & sealing thereof. 

Johannes Zoller 
Phillip Hann 
Nicho'' Bunn 

Philada., April 12"', 1758, Then personally appeared Philip Hann & Nicholas 
Bunn two of the Witnesses to the foregoing Will & on Oath did declare they saw & 
heard Barnhard Dodorow the Testator therein named sign seal publish & Declare 
the same Will for & as his Last Will & Testament & that at the Doing thereof he was 
of sound mind memory ^t understanding to the best of their Knowledge and that 
Johannes Zellar with them together did sul)scribe their names as Witnesses thereto 
in the presence & at the request of the Testator. 

Coram. WM. PLUMSTED, Reg^ Genl. 

Be it remembered that on the 12"' Day of Apl. 1758, The last Will & Testament 
of Bernhard Dodorow deced, in due form of Law was proved & probate it Letters 
Testamentary were granted to Bernhard Dodorow (Isaac Dodorow a Minor under 
age) Executors in the sd Will named being duely sworn well & truly to Administer 
the Deced'^ Estate & bring an Invent^' thereof into the reg'' Genls Office at Philada^ 
at or before the 12^'' Day of May next A render a true acco' when required. Given 
under the Seal of the sd Office.^ WM. PLUMSTEAD. Reg^ Genl. 

On "the Sevendenth Day of Ahrill Ano Domeney 1758," Philip 
Hahn and Dieter Bucher made an inventory and appraisement of the per- 
sonal property, which amonnted to £144 5 2. Tnchided were these 
items: Books, £2 12 7; wearing apparel, £6 9 0; 2 mares and 1 horse, 
together, £36 5 0; cows and heifers, £10 11 0; hogs, £1 6; seven 
sheep, £2 8 0; 2 wagons, £13 10 0; 10 acres of corn in the ground, 
£9 0; 30 bushels rye, £3 0; the remainder was composed of oats, 
flax seed, household utensils and farming imi)lements. The sale of this 
property realized £23 7 3 more than the appraisement, making a total of 
£167 12 5, which the acting executor accounted for as follows: 

The said accomptant prays allowance for his several payments made out of the 
same as follows, vizt: 

Cash paid for Probate of y Will, &c. £1 1 

paid Erhart Sheck 'p rect. 

paid Hannah Kishbert do 

paid Philip Doderer do 

paid Yost Pitting do 

paid Geo. Ifleberger do 

paid Peter Shane do 

paid Mary Hawn do 

paid Jacob Bowman d() 

paid Christ'' Sauater do 

paid Henry Snider do 

paid Henry Pennebeker do 

paid Michael Walter do 

paid John Snider do 



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paid Henry Kidlinger ^ rect. 

paid Geo. Sweiik do 

paid for sundry servit^es in Town 

paid at the office for making up these acco'ts fair copy &c. 

By allowance for the deceaseds Wearing Apparel it Books 

divided amongst all his Childn'n and appraised at 
By Connnission on receiving \' paying £5:; 7 7 @ o ^ ct. 
Ballance in hands of this AccomptaTit to t>e disposed of 

agreeable to the deceaseds Will 

£1H7 12 5 
IMuladelphia Mav 28'" ^7(^^ 

Ern.rs P:xcepte(l. BARNABAS DODDERER. 

CHURCH CONNECTION. 

Bernhard Dodderer was, of course, a member of the Reformed 
Church. He appears to have been identified with the New Goshenhop])cn 
congregation until about 1748; after this, Rev. John Philip Leydich hav- 
ing assumed the pastorate of Falkner Swamp congregation, he became 
connected with the latter church. In this he followed the course of his 
brother, Michael Dotterer (page 28). 

Record of Baptism of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed chui'ch: 1742. d. 4 
Feb. (?) Elisabetha; Eltern, Bernhart Dottere, die Frau Gertraut. Zeuge, die 
Mutter selbst. 

Bernhard Dodderer, son of Bernhard Dodderer, was confirmed at Easter, 1751, 
aged 15, at Falkner Swamp Reformed church. 

At Whit-suntide, 1756, Henry Dotterer in his 17th year, and Elizabeth Dotterer, 
in her loth year, were confirmed at Falkner Swamp Reformed church. 

NOTES. 

Bernard Dodderer and Paul Linsenpigler witnessed the will of Mathias 
Harman, of Hannover tp. dated November 28, 1734. 

In Decem))er, 1735, Bernhard Doderer was one oi the ])etitioners to 
have the bounds of Frankfort and New Hanover township (a sub-division 
of Hanover township), ascertained and recorded. 

In 1740 Bernd Dodderer was an Overseer of the Poor of New Han- 
over township. — 

Bernhard Dotterer and Michael Dotterer appeared before Peter Evans, 
Register General, March 7, 1744, and proved the will of Michael Krcbs, 
late of New Hannover township. They also (with Philip Ilahn and 
George Yerger) witnessed the will, which was dated January 10, 1744. 

Bernhart Dotterer and (Jeorge Jorger were executors (jf the will of 
Rudolph Marolph, probated December 28, 1748. In Sauer's German- 
town Pensylvanische Berichte, February K), 1751, the said executors ad- 
vertise, as for rent or for sale, tlic mill of Rudolph Marolf, in Kohl- 
bruckdiil (Colebrookdale). 



56 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

REFERENCES. 

English Schools by the Society for the p](hication of Gernians in America. See 
Life and Correspondence of Rev. William Smith, D. D., by Horace Wemyss Smith. 
1879. Vol. I., page 80. 

Rev. f^van Evans' Land. See Perkiomen Region, Volume One, page 147. 

Henry Antes. See Henry S. Dotterer's Henry Antes: A Man of Mark. In 
Schwenksville, Pa., Item; also" in Scraj) Book entitled Montgomery County Records; 
both in Library of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. See, also, A 
German Hero.' By Edwin McMinn. 1886. 

William Dewees, Paper Maker. See Whitemarsh Reformed Congregation in the 
Holland Archives. By Henry S. Dotterer. Pamphlet. At Historical Society of 
I'ennsylvania, Philailelphia. 

Petitions to the (Governor, 1728. Fac-siniiles are in the archives of the Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

6. ANNA ELIZABETH DODDERERS (George Philip Do.lderer' ). 
Born, in Europe, December 25, 1709; married (first), Michael Zimmer- 
man; married (second), July 6, 1741, l)y the pastor of New Goshen- 
hoppen Lutheran church, Jacob Kuir; died August 28, 1779; buried at 
Bo?hm's Reformed church, Whitj)ain townshij), Philadelphia (now 

Montgomery) county, Pa. Michael Zimmerman, born ; died, 

in Great Swamp, Bucks county, between February 8, 1741, and March 4, 
1741. Jacob Kurr, born February 3, 1712; died March 25, 1797; buried 
at Brt'hm's Reformed church. Children of Anna Elizabeth Dodderer and 
Michael Zimmerman : 

36. Anna Elizal)eth Zimmerman'. 

37. Michael Zimmerman^ 

38. Veronica Zimmerman'. 

39. Geoige Zimmerman'\ 

40. Mary Catharine Zinimerman^ 

Children of Anna Elizabeth Dodderer and Jacob Kurr: 

41. Anna Maria Kurr% born May 3, 1742; baptized, by the pas- 

tor of New Goshenhopi)en Lutheran church, May 23, 
1742; probably died in childhood. 

42. Magdalena Kurr% born July 28, 1743. 

43. Susanna Kurr^, born May 1, 1746. 

44. Anna Maria Kurr", l)orn Ai»ril 19, 1749; died August 19, 

1765; buried at Boehm's Reformed church. 

45. Kurr"' (a son), l)orn in June, 1750; died July 23, 

1750, aged 5 weeks; buried at the Hosensack Valley 
Lutheran church, at Dillingersville, Pa. 

46. Maria Elizabeth Kurr', born April 16, 1757; died September 

25, 1762; buried at Boehm's Reformed church. 

MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN. 

Michael Zimmerman lived in the Great Swamp region, Bucks county, 
Pa. , before the counties of Northampton and Lehigh were detached from 
Bucks county. P. W. Flores, in his Skizzen aus dem Lecha-Thale (1880- 



ANNA ELIZABETH Di^DDERER. 57 

1886), page 220, says: "Michael ZimnuTmau took up from 1733-1739 at 
various times a total of more than 333 acres of land in the Hosensack 
Valley, and jiartly in Montgomery county, bordering on Hamilton's tract. 
The land i)assed soon afterwards into the possession of his two sons, 
Michael Zinnnerman, Jr., and George Zimmerman. They received a 
patent therefor on the 23d of May, 1741, sold the greater part (255 acres) 
to Johannes Jund for £616, and moved to North Carolina. Jund sold it 
three years later to Johan Rikler, of Berks county, for £1423. It remains 
to tliis time in the hands of the Roder family." 

^^^\rrants were issued by the Land OHice, and surveys made to Michael 
Zimmerman (under the name Michael Timmerman and Timberman) as 
follows: 150 acres, in Philadelphia county, surveyed February 5, 1733; 
100 acres, in Bucks county, surveyed September 19, 1738; 333 acres, in 
Philadelphia county, surveyed in 1741. June 10, 1737, Michael Zim- 
merman signed a petition for the erection of a township, which was 
named L'pper ]\Iilford, now a part of Lehigh county. 

The Zinnnerman family, to which Michael Zimmerman belonged, 
was Lutheran in its religious connection. 

Michael Zimmerman made a will, dated February 8, 1741, which 
was probated Mardi 4, 1741. It contained these provisions: 

Imprimi.'i. My Wife Anna shall have in forehand the Lod that is the Wedding 
Lod to have that free. 

Secondli^. My wife Anna shall have the thirds of chatties and Household Goods, 
but i)f the Lands she shall have the third. 

Thirdly. My wife Anna shall have the seat on my plantation 'till my youngest 
Son George is one and twenty years old, and by this my youngest sons aforesaid age 
my Land to be divided between my two sons namely ^lichael the eldest and George 
the youngest and these shall ])ay unto my otlier children the three daughters namely 
Elizabeth ffronica and Catrina — according to appraisement by impartial men their 
full share only the daughters shall have out of the fund, & not of the land. 

This now to perform I chuse two Guardians over my Wife and children, Bern- 
hart Doderer and George Zimmerman. * * MICHAEL ZIMM1<]RMAN. 

Witnesses: Peter Schuelp, Henry Seids. 

The inventory was exhibited 6'" May, 1741. It was headed thus: 
"In the Nam of god this 27"" Day of March In the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred and forty one we Barnabas Dutra and George 
Zimberman have Chosen two Just and able men for to preace the goods 
of the said Michael Zimberman, desased which is Abraham Meyer and 
Dewald Magling. " Some of the more interesting items of the inventory, 
which amounted to a total of £375 2 4, w(!re the following: 

Three Couse (cows) £ 9 

Horned Chattle 11 15 

the owl gray Horse 1 15 

the young Gray Horse 5 10 

the pay horse « 

the young Black Horse * 5 15 

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the black mar and cold 

the young pay mar 

the sheep 

the Winder Corne In the Grovuid 

the Weat 

the Plantation 

Cash in the House at the time of his decease 

The account rendered by the executors is dated February 7, 1750, at 
Philadelphia, and is signed: Bernhard Dodderer, Georg Zimmermann. 
They claim credit for the following payments: 
By James Steell for the use of the Prop'' at 3 times 
By Geo. Sholze 
By Jn" Sell vendue Cryer 
By Philip Dotterer 
By Jacob Markle 
By Henry Sitz 
By Jn° Make 
By Chris^ Jakel 

" Liquor Expende<l at Vendue 

" Leonard Ox 

" Peter Shil]) as a witness 

" Jn" Kraus Weaver 

" Mich' Shell, Shoemaker 

" Chas. Brockden for Record ol Deed 

' ' do for the Patent &c. 

" George Hidner 

" Making up the ac't 

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Ballance to be divided Agreeable to the Will of the Deced 

£375 2 4 
.JA('()I5 Kl'RR. 

March 2, 1746, Jacob Kurr took up about forty-seven acres of Innd 
in the Hosensack Valley; this, P. W. Flores in his sketch of Das Hosen- 
sacks-Thal, says, he sold, in 1764, to Abraham Meyer. In 1752 he took 
up thirty-two acres on the Hosensack mountain; this he sold, in 1764, to 
John Derr. He moved to Tulpehocken township, Berks county, we are 
informed by Mr. Flores. February 6, 1759, Jacob Kurr purchased one 
hundred and fifty acres, in Whiti)ain township, part of the plantation 
formerly owned and occupied by Rev. John Philip Boehm. (See Sesqui- 
Centennial of B(phm's Reformed Church, page 54.) This farm was close 
to Boehm's Reformed church; the ground on which the church stands 
may have been a part of it. Jacob Kurr, upon obtaining possession of 
the one hundred and fifty acres, built a house thereon. The house in 
which Pastor Boehm had lived was located on the i)ortion of his two hun- 
dred acres not conveyed to Kurr, fronting on Skippack road. The home 



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erected by Jacob Kurr was torn down in 181!). Enos Roberts is the 
present (1902) owner and occupant of the land on wliich it stood. Jacob 
Kurr continued a resident of Whitpain township until his death. 

The tax lists tell us: In 1769, Jacob Kurr of Whiti)ain township was 
assessed for Proprietary Tax £21 14 8 on 200 acres, 3 horses, 4 cattle. 
In 1774, his Provincial tax was £17 19 4 on 200 acres, 3 horses, 5 cattle. 
In 1779 he was taxed for Effective Supplies £28 0. In 1780, on a 
valuation of £7269, his tax was £145 6 9. In 1781, Jacob Curr, far- 
mer, was taxed for Effective Supplies, on a valuation of £758, £9 13 3. 
In 1782, on a valuation of £830, £5 1 9. In 1783 for Federal tax he 
was rated on 215 acres, 1 horse, 2 cattle. 

Jacob Kurr appears to have been a member of the Lutheran church. 
From 1742 to 1758 his name appears on the record of the Hosensack 
Valley Lutheran church, located at the present town of Dillingersville. 
In 1743 he attended there; in 1751 his name appears among the com- 
municants; from 1755 to 1758 he contributed to the salary of the minis- 
ter there. In Whitpain township, he attended Brehm's Reformed 
church, near which he lived; and he is buried close to the east wall of 
the church. Anna Elizabeth Dodderer, his wife, is l)uried beside him, 
as are two of their children. 

After the death of his wife, Anna Elizabeth Dodderer, he married 
Anna Oteli Hockamiller, widow. She survived him, and died about the 
3'ear 1807. 

Jacob Kurr made his last will and testament Sei)tember 19, 1795, 
which was proven April 6, 1797. In his will he mentions his wife, Anna 
Oteli, nis daughter Magdalena, wife of John Rusher; and his daughter 
Susanna, wife of Jacob Welker. He names as executors his son-in-law, 
Jacob Welker, and his friend, John \^'entz, Jun., of Whitpain township. 
Hon. Jones Detwiler, in his address at the Sesqui-Centennial of Boehm's 
Reformed Church, says: ' 'After the death of Mr. Kurr the ap])raisers of 
the estate found large amounts (at that time) of gold coin hidden in 
various places in the house." 

The inscriptions on the stones which inark the graves of the Kurr 

family at Bcehm's church, are: 

Hier Ruhet Anna Maria 

ANNA KURRIN KORRIN 

Gebohren den 25 De- V)orn 19 April 1749 

cember 1709 Gestorb- Died 19th August 1705 

en den 28 August 1779. aged 16 v. 4 mo. 



Hier Ruhet der Leib Maria Klizabetfi 

des Verstorbenen KURRIN 

JACOB KURR b. April Id, 1757 

Er war gelxiren den 3ten d. yei)t. 25, 1762 

F'ebruary 1712 

und is gestorben den 25ten 

March 1797 

Sein Alter war 85 lahr 

1 Monat und 21 Tajje 



60 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

7. CONRAD DUDDARER' (George Philip Dodderer 0. Born in 

September, 1712; married, in January, 1732, Magdalena ; died in 

January, 1801, aged eighty-eight years and four months, and was buried 
January 27, 1801. In Falkner Swamp Reformed church record of deaths 
is this: "1797. Aug. 21. Magdalena, wife of Conrad Doderer, aged 82 
years, 3 months. N. B. She lived in wedlock 65 years 7 months." 
Children: 

47. Jacob Dutrow^ 

48. Catharine Duddarer'. 

49. Conrad Dudderar", l^orn May 26, 1738. 

50. Christina Duddarer*. 

51. Christian Duddarer'\ 

52. Susanna Duddarer'\ 

53. John Dotterer% born Novomlior 26, 1751. 

54. Elizal)eth Duddarer\ 

55. Al)raham Dotterer^ 

56. Magdalena Dotterer'. 

Conrad Duddarer, in accordance with the provisions of his father's 
will, came in possession of the family seat, consisting of two hundred and 
fifty acres of land, lying on both sides of Society Run, in Frederick town- 
ship, a short distance below the line of New Hanover township. This 
fine plantation remained intact during his lifetime. See pages 9, 10, 16-21. 

Conrad Duddarer was a successful farmer, well-educated, u]>right, 
conservative. During the long period of his ownership of the paternal 
estate, he made no sales from it, and no additions to it. He conducted it 
ably, increasing its value year by year. He died a wealth}- man, for 
those times. His name does not ap])ear in tla- records of the Reformed 
congregations in his neighborhood. It is inferred that he was identified 
with one or another of the denominations which kept no records. There 
is some ground for the supposition that his wife was Magdalena Schweitzer, 
daughter of the Lorentz Schweitzer who died in Germantown in 1776. 
The death of his wife and himself is recorded, however, in the Churcli 
book of Falkner Swamp Reformed congregation; but they are buried, 
according to trustworthy tradition, in the graveyard now known as 
Bertolet's burying ground, located half a mile due west from their home, 
but no gravestones have been placed at their graves. 

By act of Assembly, passed May 18, 1739, and confirmed by the 
King in Council May 12, 1740, Conrad Dotterer was naturalized. 

The tax lists furnish this information concerning his assessable prop- 
erty: In the list of taxables of Frederick townshiji for 1776 is: "Conrad 
Dotterer, 250 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows." In 1769, Conrad Dodderow, of 
Frederick township, was assessed Proprietary tax the sum of £18 5 on 
250 acres of land, 3 horses and 3 cattle. In 1774, his Provincial tax was 
£15 17 8 on 250 acres, 2 horses and 2 cattle. In 1779 his Supply tax 



CONRAD DUDDARER. 61 

was £14, and the record shows tliat he jjaid £3 10 0, l)eing five sliilliiigs 
in the Pound. In 1780 Conrr.d Dottrer was assessed £3 in the £100 on a 
valuation of £3000, the sum of £90 for Effective Supply tax. 

HIS WILL. 

Conrad Duddarer made his last will and testament on the 23rd of 
IMarcli, 1777. Its more important parts were: 

* * * Item, I give and devise unto my hiving wife Magdalena instead of her 
thirds the Interest of three hundred pounds lawfull money of the ])r()vini'e to he paid 
to her yearly so long she remains my widow in case my wife should marry agin then 
the half of the interest shall cease and the one hundred and fifty pounds to l)e 
e(|ually divided between my hereafter named children or the heirs of their Ixidies 
and the residue after her decease and further shall my widow have the house on my 
place next to the great road and the stable with about four acres of land with the 
meadow adjoining and half of that orchard next to the house and the liberty for 
wood in the twelve acres of woodland adjoining the orchard field so long she remains 
my widow and further I give and devise unto her for her own use and disposal my 
bed, bedstead, and all belonging to the same, of pewter one dish and a big plate, six 
small plates, two niittle sorts of yron pots, a big yron kittle, a spinging wheel, a 
cheast, with all her cloths and fifteen bushels of Brad corn, halfe wheat and half 
rey, and one cow, the choice of all that shall be cept in pasture on my plantation 
(luring her widowhood in somer. 

Item, I give and devise to my eldest son Jacob the sum of five Pounds lawful 
money of this province on reason that he is my eldest son as advance before the 
other children and the residue of my estate I give and devise in equal shares to be 
divided among my ctiildren and grandchildren named Jacob, Conrad, John, At)ra- 
ham, Catharina, Christina, Susana, Elizabeth and Magdaln, and my two grandchil- 
dren of my sf)n Christian, named John and Catharine, lieing also ten equal parts to 
devide, and in case one of my grandchildren sliouhl die before their lawfid age then 
that share shall devolve to the other, and in case both should die before that age 
then that share shall devolve to my other children or the heirs of their bodies for- 
ever with all the rest of their shares to have an<l to hold them and their heirs for- 
ever. And whereas I dit give my four eldest daughters which are married on house- 
hold goods to the amount f)f Twelve pounds each, it is my will that sum shall be 
reckoned to their shares and it is further my will that my eldest son shall have his 
Share first and then as they follow in age only my grandchildren shall be last in 
share; and further it is my will that my executors shall sell my estate both real and 
personal to the best advantage of my children and lastly I do nominate my friends 
George Swenck and Sanniel Rartolet, ])oth of Frederick townshij), sole executors of 
this my last will and testament to act in part or separate as it may by reason of 
death * * * ,— ^^ 

In presence of CONRAD DUDDARER |se.\i,| 

Benjamin Snider _.^^ 

Daniel Boyer 
Ludwig vSchuedler 

The will was proved May 12, 1801, and letters testamentary granted 
to George Swenck and Samuel Bcrtolet. 

The signature to the will is not distinc;t as to the last two letters of 
the surname, hut it is either Conrad I)ndd(n-er or Conrad I)ud<larer. The 
red seal is not clear. 

February 16, 1801, an inventory was made by Benjamin Markley 



(^2 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

and John Swink, and March 13, 1801, a public sale was made of the 
personal property, realizmg £97 12 9. The real and personal property 
amounted in gross to £3035 12 3; after paying all expenses £2656 6 
remained for distribution. The accounts were passed and affirmed to 
March 30, 1802. Notices of the filing of the account were put up by the 
executors thirty days before the 11th of May, 1802, at the houses of 
Benjamin Markley, Benjamin Snyder and Jacob Ralm. Among the 
articles sold was a large Bible in four volumes, bought by Samuel Jorger 
(Yerger) for £7 0; in the inventory this was appraised at £2 5 0. 
Phihp Royer bought a diamond to cut glass for 19s. lid. In the inven- 
tory were 11 books, appraised at 10s.; John Dotterer bought three of 
these for 3s. 8d., John Dotterer, cordwainer, three for 4s. 3d., and 
Johannes Kieler three for 10s. A clock with case was appraised £3, and 
sold to Valentine Anderson for £2 lis. Od. Four Dealpth (Delft) plates 
were appraised 8d. David Sower was paid for printing Hand Bills 
£0 lis. 3d. The clerk's neat sales statement, filed in the court house, 
shows that about all the citizens of the vicinity were buyers at the vendue 
of the personal property. 

After the decease of Conrad Duddarer, his plantation of two hundred 
and fifty acres was disposed of, as already stated. Jacoli Zieber became 
owner of twenty-five acres of the southwesterly part of the farm, fronting 
on the Skippack road, now known as the Great road. The original 
patents gave the southwesterly boundary as ninety-eight perches, but the 
survey to Jacob Zieber made it one hundred and three porches. This 
tract, therefore, had a front of one hundred an<l three perches on the 
Great road; it extended back, northeastward, thirty-nine perches. John 
Markley purchased the remainder of the property, which, according to 
the deed made to him April 1, 1802, consisted of two hundred and 
twenty-seven acres and one hundred and twenty-four perches. Markley' s 
purchase was evidently for speculative purposes. November 16, 1802, 
he deeded to John Dotterer, son of Conrad Duddarer, deceased, ninety- 
eight acres, taken out of the heart of the original estate, and lying on 
both sides of Society run. January 25, 1803, Markley sold to Jacob 
Grub 33 acres and 95 perches. Later, he deeded to John Corner, David 
Underkoffier, Daniel Smith, Ludwig Reimer, Peter Swiseford, Jacob 
Zieber and others, the remainder of his holding. A notable fact connect- 
ed with this considerable deal is that the northeastern portion of the 
property, lying on both sides of the Little road of to-day, was cut up 
into small parcels, several of them of only five acres. Jacob Zieber pur- 
chased of these three uncontiguous lots of five acres each, located in the 
end of the original farm farthest from his twenty-five-acre tract. The 
reason for thus slicing the northeastern section of the plantation, which 
was the least fertile, is not apparent; the deeds are silent as to it, and 
the memory of man stops short of that time. 



ANNA SOPTTTA POTTERER. 63 

NOTES. 
October IG, 1732, Henry Switzer, of the reputed township of New 
Bristol, near Skippack, gave a mortgage for £S0, secured by a })kxntation 
of 83^ acres in New Bristol townshi}), to Cunrad Tudra, of Fredericks, 
yeoman, Philip Hawn, of Hanover, taylor, Lawrence Reiner, of Limerick, 
weaver, and Katharine Switzer, of New JBristol, spinster. October 1, 1740, 
Conrad Duddarer and Phillip Hann released, having received full satisfac- 
tion. Conrad Duddarer signed his name in English; Philip Hann signed 
in German. — 

In 1754, Conrad Duddarer was actively interested in the effort to 
establish at Falkner Swamp an English school under the auspices of the 
London Society for the Propagation (>f the Gospel and for the Education 
of the Germans in Pennsylvania. 

Conrad Duddarer was a newsi)aper reader. His daughter, Magda- 
linia Dotterer, wife of Peter ffisterk-in, told Sophia Dotterer (afterwards 
wife of .John Hummel), that she was in the habit, when a little girl, of 
going to the home of Michael Kuntz, a very old man, for the newspaper 
for her father. — 

A remarkable circumstance is the absence of stones to mark the 
graves of Conrad Duddarer and his wife, in Bertolet's burying ground. 
John (Estcrlein, a grandson, related in his old age, fifty or more years 
ago, that he, a child, was at his grandfather's funeral, and that he re- 
membered that the loody was carried through the woods to the burial 
ground. He also statec that his grandfather I3uddarer was a tanner. 

8. ANNA SOPHIA DOTTERER' (Michael Dotterer^ George 
Phili]) Doddeier^). Born in Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, ManJi 
o, 1726; baptized Anna Sophia — sponsors: Jacob Fisher and wife, the 
grandparents; married Daniel Troxel. Children: 

57. John TroxelP, born May 3, 1760. 

58. David TroxeP. 

In the tax lists of Germany towns-hi}), York county, Pa., we tind: 

1779, Daniel Troxel, 225 acres, 4 horses, 4 horned cattle; Tax, £95 7 6. 

1780, Daniel Troxel, 150 acres, 3 horses, 3 horned cattle; Tax, £58 0. 
17S1, Daniel Troxel, 200 acres, 3 horses, 4 horned cattle; Tax, £ 8 7 6. 

Michael Dotterer made an exception in the case of his daughter, 
Sophia Dotterer, by bequeathing to her "Five shillings Starling besides 
the 25£ that she hath received and what shee bought at my vendue," in 
lieu of a full share in his remaining estate. (See page 26.) 

Daniel Troxel was a native of Switzerland. Sopiiia Dettero (Dot- 
terer) was of German descent. This information John Troxcll (born 
May 3, 1760) gave to his grandson, Robert Sheads, of Gettysburg, Pa., 
about the year 1838. 



64 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

9. ANNA VERONICA DOTTERER' (Michael Dotterer% George 
Philip Dodderer^). Born, in Frederick township, Philadelphia county, 
September 5, 1727; sponsor at baptism, Anna Dotterer; married, about 
1748, by Rev. George Michael Weiss, John Heebner; died January 27, 
1778. John Heebner (believed to have been the son of Hans and Maria 
Heebner, who came with the Schwenkfclder colony in 1734, and bought 
land in Frederick township) died, in September or October, 1792. Children : 

59. John Heebner*. 

60. Philip Heebner'. 

61. Sophia Heebner *, born February 17, 1755. 

62. George Heebner*. 

63. Michael Heebner*. 

64. Mary Hee])ner*. 

65. Margaret Heebner*. 

In the tax lists of Frederick township we trace John Heebner as 
follows: In 1774, John Hibner was assessed Provincial tax on 350 acres 
of land, 4 horses and 6 cows, £24 9 4. In 1776, John Heebner was 
taxed on 200 acres, 3 horses and 4 cows. In 1779, Effective Supply Tax, 
£18 0, and State Tax, £4 10 0. In 1780, Effective Supply Tax, 
£114 0, on a valuation of £3800. In 1783, he was assessed Fedend 
Tax on 150 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows, 5 sheep. 

August 10, 1779, John Heebner, Sr. , of Frederick township, sold to 
his son, John Heebner, Jr., 152 acres, 134 perches, in said township, 
bounded by Perkiomen creek, and lands of Jacob Frants, (jarret Rins 
and Ludwig Lehman. 

John Heebner made his will on September 3, 1792. It was proV)ated 
October 26, 1792. He named his sons, John Heebner and George 
Heebner, executors of his estate. 

His real and personal property was offered at public sale on Novem- 
ber 2, 1792. The announcement in Die Gcrmantauner Zeitung, October 
23, 1792, was: 

Johannes and Georg Huebener, executors of the estate of Joliannes Huebcner, 
late of Frederick townsliip, deceased, offer at pubhc sale, on the 2d of November, 
1792, the real and personal property of said decedent. It consists of a plantation 
of 200 acres and allowances, in Frederick townsliip, 34 miles from Philadelphia, 
arable land, upon vvhich are two orchards of several hundred trees, a stone dwelling 
house, good barn, part of stone, and other buildings, about 25 acres of meadow, 
partly watered, about 85 acres woodland. It is situate on the great road leading 
from Pottstown to Bethlehem, suitable for a jiublic business. To be sold at the same 
time: Horses, cattle, slieep, hogs, bees, wagon, plough, harrow, bedding, whiskey 
kettle, hay, grain, eight-day clock, besides household articles and farming utensils. 

John Richards, of New Hanover township, took title to the real 
estate May 26, 1794. 

There is a private burying place on the old Heebner property, but 
only common field stones, without lettering, mark the graves. 



GEOIUiE PHILIP DOTTERER. 65 

NOTES. 
In the Churcli rerord of the Goshenhoi)pen Ret'ornied congregation, 
Rev. George Michael \\'eiss makes entr>' of the marriage of "J. Iliibner 
and Anna Dotterin" between the years 1747 and 1758. 

In the Old Goshenhoppen Reformed Church record the date of the 
death of Joh. Hiipner's wife is given as January 27, 1778, at the age of fifty 
years,one month and twenty-one days,and the date of her birth Deccnil)er 
5, 1727, a difference of three months as compared with the family record. 

In her father's will (page 26) Anna Veronica (Froni) Heel^ier's 
name is given as ]\Iary Hefners. This incorrectness is doul)tless due to 
the fact that the will was drawn by a stranger in York county, who was 
unacquainted with the testator's family, and misunderstood the testator. 

John Heebner, as administrator, settled such of the estate of his 
father-in-law in Montgomery county as had not been disposed of by the 
agreement made in the lifetime of Michael Dotterer, father, with Michael 
Dotterer, son. (See page 27). 

Jolm Hiibner and Henr}^ Antes were witnesses to the signing of the 
will of Verony Dodderer, widow of George Philip Dodderer, June 8, 1751. 

10. GEORGE PHILIP DOTTERER' (Michael Dotterer% George 
Philip Dodderer^). Born in Frederick township, Philadelphia (now 
^lontgomery) county, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1729; married, in the 
month of May, 1754, Elizabeth Antes; died, in Limerick township, Phil- 
adelphia (now Montgomery) county, August 23, 1771. Elizalieth Antes, 
daughter of Henry and Christiana (Dewees) Antes, born in Frederick 
township, January 29 (New Style, February 9), 1734; married (first) 
George Philip Dotterer; married (second) April 23, 1772, Rev. Nicholas 
Pomp; died, at Easton, Pa., May 20, 1812. Children of George Philip 
Dotterer and Elizabeth Antes: 

66. Benigna Dotterer^, born February 7, 1753. 

67. Anna Dotterer^, born Decemlier 21, 1756. 

68. Elizalieth Dotterer\ born May 7, 1759. 

69. Henry Dotterer', born July 25, 1762. 

70. Mary Dotterer', born December 25, 1764. 

71. Frederick Dotterer^ born September 13, 1769. 

George Philip and Elizabeth (Antes) Dotterer, at the outset of their 
married life, attended the Oley Moravian church. The wife was, appar- 
ently, a member of the Moravian society; but the husband was not. 
From the records of the Oley church. Rev. Prof. William J. Hinke, of 
Philadeli)hia, extracted, in July, 1902, the following entries bearing on 
the identification of the young married |)air with that congregation: 



66 THE DOTTEIlP]R FAMILY. 

P'lisaheth Dotterin, jfehorene Antes, 

geboreii in Fakkner Schwain, oder Fridrichstown 

Anno 1734, den 9. Fel)r. 

w urdc 5 Wochen daranf von Pfr. Btehni getanft. 

Vater: Henrich Antes. 

Mutter: Christina Antes. 

heyrathete 1754 ini Monath May 

Philip Dotter 

Duicli die Vorsorge ihres Vaters kam 

sie als ein jnnges Mfedel nach Bethlchriu. 

Kinder: (1) Anna Renigna. 

(2) Anna. 

(3) Elisabeth. 

May 20, ITHC, Michael and Anna Maria Dotterer, the parents of 
George Philip Dotterer, conveyed to their eldest son and heir, under the 
name Philii» Dotterer, one hundred and seventy-three acres and one 
hundred perches of ]and« in New Hanover township, facing the township 
line between N(nv Hanover and Frederick townships, the consideration 
being "as well for :uid in consideration of the natural love and affection 
which they have and do l)are for and toward their said son, and for his 
preferment in the world, as also for and in consideration of the sum of 
one hundred pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania . . . well and 
truly paid." (See page 37.) 

0(^tol)er S, 1762, Philip Dotterer and Elizabeth, his wife, granted to 
Jacob Peterman (written, in German, Piterman) the two tracts in New 
Hanover township, containing together one hundred and seventy-three 
acres and one hundred and fifty perches. 

About the time George Phili]) Dotterer sold his property in New 
Hanover township lie purchased land in Limerick township, and settled 
there. He entered into partnership with Henry Seidle in the business of 
inn-keeping and store-keeping, in Limerick township. This connection 
was of short duration, for Seidle died al)Out the l)eginning of 1764. 
George Philip Dotterer entered a caveat in the Proljate Court, respecting 
the estate of his deceased partner, viz: 

"M I'hnnsted Pleas to Lett Ndn adniinil'ter to the Estate of Henry Seidle, 
Deceal'ed, till I am at Present for Some jiarticnlar Reasons and in So Doing yon will 
oblige your friend & Servant , PIIIIJJP DODEREK. 

January the 15"' 1704. 

Letters of administration were granted to "Philip Dotterer, friend of 
Henry Seidle, late of Limerick townshi}>, Iim holder and Shop Keeper, 
dec'd." The bond was for £2000 Pennsylvania money; Nicholas Bunn 
and Philip Jost (Yost) were the sureties. In the Pennsylvania Gazette 
of Feb. 28, 1765, Numb. 1888, Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 
Post-Master, and D. Hall, appeared this advertisement: 



GEORGE PHILIP DOTTERER. 



67 



ALL thdle who aiv iiulebted to the rartiuT- 
*" fhip of Philip Dotterer and Henry vSeidle, 
deceafed, are desired to make Ijieedy Payment, 
and I'ave themselves further Trouble and ("oft, 
as the furvivini; Partner is determined to pay 
the Demands on faid Partnerfhip as foon as 
poffible; and those who have any juft Demands, 
to fend in their Accounts to 

PHILIP DOTTKKER. 

October 21, 1765, license to kee]) a tavern was granted to Philip 
Dudrow, of Limerick township, for which the fee was £1 16 0. January 
3, 1768, this license was renewed. 

January 18, 1768, Philip Dotterer, innholder, of Limerick township, 
l)ought of William Kendall, two hundred and forty acres of land in Lim- 
erick towaiship, adjoining other lands owned by him and lands of Francis 
Hooven. William Maulsbe, \\'illiam Kendall and Edward Boulton. 

In the assessment of Limerick township, for Proprietary tax in 1769, 
Philip Dotterer appears as oAvner of 340 acres of land, 2 horses, 3 cows, 
ui)on which the tax w^as £25 17 8. 

George Philip Dotterer died without making a will. Letters of ad- 
iiiinistration were granted, September 23, 1771, to Elizabeth Dotterer, the 
widow, and Frederick Antes, her brother; John Bull and Jonathan 
Custer were the sureties on the bond. September 21, 1771, Jno. Bull, 
Henry Dering, Jr., and Benj". Jacobs made an inventor}^ of the i)ersonal 
pro})erty, consisting of household goods, farming implements, store goods, 
grain, cattle, wines and liquors, cash and accounts. The personal estate 
realized at sale £609 17 9, and the real estate, sold by order of Orphans' 
Court, £1890 5 0, making together £2500 2 9. On the other hand, the 
lial)ilities of the deceased amounted to upwards of £2100, and other dis- 
bursements swelled this sum, so that when the administrators, on May 7, 
1772, rendered their account but £150 10 5 remained for distribution 
to the heirs. 

The details of the settlement of the estate follow : 

INVENTORY. 
An Inventory of all the goods. Chattels, Rights and Credits which were of 
Phillip Dutterer, late of Limerick Township in the County of Philadelphia, de- 
ceased, viz: 

To his wearing aj)parel £14 10 — 

To his riding mare saddle and Pridle lr» — — 

To a Black walnut High Case of Draws (> 

To a Plain do 5 10 — 

To a Blackwalnut Desk .S 

To a Dining Ta])le 1 5 — 

To a Large Do. — 15 — 

T<. a Tea Table 1 

To 2 Small Tables — 7 « 

To 1 Black Walnut do • j To 1 Larimer do "j — 11 — 



68 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 



I to a small Cubbord ■' \ 



To a p'" of .small hand Irons " 
To 12 old Chairs ' '^ | 
To a Cradle ^ | 

" I To a Hammock & frame 



To a Cloathes Press * 

To a Clock and Case 

To a Silver Watch 

To six rush Bottomd Chairs "* | To a p'" of small hand Irons " | 

To 2 small looking Glasses ^" | „ 

To six rush Bottom' d Chairs ^" | 

To a Ten plate Stove and Pipe 

To a Big Wheel and Clock Reel i 

To a Warming Pan " | „ To six old Chairs ^- | 

To a Large Bible and other siuidry Books 

To a Small Black Walnut Stand 

To an old Feather Bed Bedding ct Bedstead &ca. 

To a Feather Bed Bedstead Beding (fee". 

To a Small Single do 

To a Chaff Bed Beding Bedstead &c\ 

To do do do 

To a Machine to press & smooth Clothes i" | To 12 Bags ' '^ | 

To a quantity of Flaxseed '^ " | To 5 old Spining Wheels ^ ^ | 

To a Meal Chest Be<lstead and other Lundoer 

To 2 Old Chaff Beds Beding Bedsteads &c\ 

To an old box of Diaws an old Bedstead & other Lumber 

To Sundry Table Linnen ^^^ | To Sundry Sheets and Pillow cases ^ 

To a Tea Kettle and China and Delft Tea Ware 

To Six Silver Tea Spoons 

To Sundry Bowls decanters Tumblers Jugs and Glasses &c". 

To a p"" of mony Scales & some weights 

To a p' of Brass Shop Scales 

To 2 p^ of Steelyards ^ '' \ and Sundry old Iron ' j 

To an Plantation AV^agon 

To a light Cart Cart Saddle and Coilers 

To a Cutting Box and Sundry old Casks 

To Sundry old Spades Shovels Pitchforks ttC. 

To 2 Coilers 2 Backhands tt a pair of Chains 

To 2700 Oak Shingles at « | pr ct. 

To the Wheat in iNIough in the Stone Barn 

To the Hay in the Stone Barn 

To the Hay in the Frame Barn 

To the Wheat in ^Mough in the Frame Barn 

To the Oats in do do 

To the Dutch Fan 

To about 1000 foot of Poplar and Oak Boards @ '■ | 

To about 150 feet of 2^ Inch Oak Plank at " | 

To Flax and Hem]i 

To the Buckwheat in the Ground 

To 5 Hogs and 4 Pigs 

To a Bay Filley 

To a Brown Horse 

To a Sorrel Horse 

To a Black mare 

To 4 Set of Collai-s Heims Backhands Traces & Blindhalters 

To 3 Ploughs Plough irons and Swingle Trees 

To a Harrow ^ - j To a Wheelbarrow * | 

To one Brindle Cow 



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GEORGE PHILIP DOTTERER. 



69 



Til oiu' lirowii Cow 
To a Red Cow 
To a Pide Cow- 
To a Red and WhiU' sjiottod Cow- 
To an old Red Cow- 
To a Red Heifer 
To a Red Steer 
To a Yearling Heifer 
To 17 Sheep a 7 "^ 
To a Smooth bore Gun 
To a Mall Wedges grnhing hoe an<l Ax 
To 3 Timber Chains 

To a Handsaw Drawing Knife & Sundrys 
To 2 pr of old Iron Hopples 
To about 12 Gallon of Madeira Wine 
To a small cask of low prie'd Wine 
To about 74 Gallon of rum @- 'M g P*"- 
To a nundjer of empty Casks 
To Pewter ware 
To a Brass Kettle 
To a Dresser & Kitchin Furniture 
To the Indian Corn in the Ground 
To the Wheat and Rie put in the Ground this Season 
To 7 Quire of Paper 

To about 2i yards of Woolen Cloth at the Mill @ ^M 
To an old Walnut Chest & old Bedstead 
To the Cash in the House 
To Bonds Notes and Book Debts amounting to 



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Appraised the 21st day of Septem"" 1771, by 



£522 12 5 
JNO. BULL 
HENRY DERING, JR. 
BENJN JACOBS 



ADMINISTRATORS' ACCOUNT. 
The Aoeonipt of Elizabeth Pomp (alias Dutterer) widow of Philip Dutterer, and 
Frederick Antes, Esq., Administrators of the Estate of Philip Dutterer, deceased. 
Imprimis. 

The said Accomptants Charge themselves with all and Singular the 
the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased as mentioned 
in an Inventory thereof remaining in the Register Genls Office at 
Philadeljihia amounting To £522 12 5 

The said Accomptants Charge themselves with the further Sum of 
£1890 5 0, being what the deceaseds Lands sold for by order of 
the Orphans' Court, i^c. 1890 5 - 

Ditto with what the (ioods Sold for more tlian Appraised at 87 5 4 



£2500 2 9 

Item. The said Accomptants pray Allowance for their several payments and dis- 
bursements made out of the same as follows, viz', 
paid for Letters of Adnunistration &v. 
paid Daniel Heister Bond and Intt. 
paid John Wister Bond principl it Intt. 
paid Owen Jones Bond Princii)le and Intt. 





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'0 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 



paid Daniel Heister Bon pi <.*t Intt. 
paid John Wister one year Interest 
paid John Wister Bond Prinpl & Interest 
paid Jacob Longnecker Bond &c. 
l)aid John Bull Principal & Interest 
paid John Stetler Principal and Intt. 
paid Abraham Seeler Principle & Intt. 
paid Casper Rawn Principal & Intt. 
paid Casper Rawn Principal & Intt. 
paid Abraham Levan Prinple &. Intt. 
paid Catherine Yost Princ[)l tt Intt. 
paid Nicholas Kressman Prinpl & Intt. 
paid George Roh Prinpl & Intt. 
paid Frederick Weiss Prinp' & Intt. 
paid Nichdlas Kreesman Tax 
paid Dr. .lonathaii Potts 
paid William Crispin Collector of P]xcize 
paid Jacob Peterinan Cryer at Vendue 
paid Frederick Ilessor, Vendue Clerk 
paid at the Register Generals otiice for stating Examining and 
passing this Account with Copy under Seal of s* Office 



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101 15 

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215 10 

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21 10 

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£2155 15 



By a Debt ilue Frederick Antis one of the Adminrs Bond and 

Interest amounting in all to the sum of 3r> 3 

paid Expenses of an Arbitration — 1(> 

paid the Sheriff his Ace' on Sundry Actions p Acco'^ 20 10 

paid a Lawyer for Council at Sundry times 3 4 

By allowance for Sundry Debts appraised in the Inventory Bad 

Amounting To 24 17 

By Expences at the Orphans Court on Obtaining an order of 

Sale &c. W Acco'^ 3 5 

Paid Sundry funeral Expenses W Account 5 — — 

By an Allowance made the Accomptants for their time Trou- 
ble Expence and Care in the Administration of the Estate 

until this time 100 

Ballance on this Settlement to be disposed of as the Law <lirects 150 10 5 

Errors Excepted £2500 2 9 

ELIZABETH POMP, Just. 
FDK. ANTES, Just. 



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THE WIDOW S SECOND MARRIAGE. 

Elizabeth (Antes) Dotterer, widow of Georoe Philip Dotterer, mar- 
ried Rev. Nicholas Pomp, a clergyman of the German RefornKHl Chnreh. 
Their marriage is entered in the Falkner Swamp Reformed church record 

thus: 

1772. 
N. Pomp, V. D. M. mit Elisabeth Dotter 
sind getraut worden den 23. Aprill 

Rev. Nicholas Pomp, born at Manbiichel, near Zweibriicken, Ger- 
many; died at Easton, Pa., September 1, 1819. He was pastor of 



GEORGE PHILIP DOTTERER. 71 

Refoi'iiU'd c'oiigiTgatioiis at various ])oiiits in Eastern Pcinisylvania and in 
Baltiiiiori'. Rev. Nicliolas I'onip and Eliza])eth, his wife, had one eliild: 
Thomas Poni]i, hoi'n at Ski|)])aek, Pa., Felirnai'v o, 177'S; died at 
Easto)i. Pa., April "22, IS-'i-J. lie was a noted Reformed minister, and 
progenitor of a nnmerons fannly. 

SKETCH OF KLIZAlUri'II A.NI'KS. 

The following sketch of the life of Ellizahetli .\ntes was prepared, it 
is sui)posed, to be read at her funeral. The original in (Jeiiiian was dis- 
covered by Rev. Professor Joseph Henry Dubbs, D. D., of i^'raidvlin and 
Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa., and translated l»y him: 

We desire to make the foll<)wiii<i; brief statement eonceniiii^' the life and con- 
(hict of our sister. 

She was born at Falkner Rwamp, in the year 1784. Iler father was tfie late 
Henry Antes and her motlier his lawful wife Christina, through wliose faith she 
received Holy Baptism and therewith received the name Elizal)eth. In her eighth 
year she removed with her parents to Betlilehem, where she remained ten years and 
received a virtuous training. 

After her father left Bethlehem and had returned to his own land in Falkner 
Swaiii]! many of his children also returned thither. Our sister was soon afterwards 
married to Philip Dotterer, with whom she lived in matrimony sixteen years and 
begat six children, — two sons and four daughters, who are all still living. After the 
father had died, the mother, after a suitable i:)eriod of widowhood, entered again the 
holy state of matrimony, with Mr. Nicholas Pomp, with whom she lived happily for 
more than thirty-nine years. In this marriage she liegat one son, who was the 
source of much happiness in her later years. 

Of our sister we may truly declare that she lived a most virtuous life. In her 
domestic life she was careful and industrious; as a Christian she was earnest and 
always sought to do all things unto edification. 

Our sister enjoyed good health during a long life until recently when she was 
attacked by a severe illness which continued four weeks. 

LETTER OF JUDGE JAMES D. DOTTERER. 

The following letter, written by the late Judge .lames D. Dotterer, 
of l^lackwoodtown, Camden county, New Jersey, a grandson of George 
Philip and Elizabeth (Antes) Dotterer, conveys information which has 
aided much in the compilation of the family hisU)ry: 

Hu\CKWOODTOWN, M.\R( II 21, 1864. 

I)'. Sir: In answer to yours of 12"' Instant, Ihave delayed thesameexpiH-ting to he. 
intlie city some days before this and feeling desirous of haveing a personall interview 
with you. At present I shall not be in Camden before the 28"' Inst , on which day 
there is court. I would be pleased to see you. 

Some 2 years back I received a letter from Snyder Antis recpiesting information 
on the History of the family. I do not know that he was any way connected with 
the Dotterer branch. My father's mot I icr was an Antis, sister to Col. Antis of the 
Revolution. After his father's death she inaiiied the Rev*. Pomp, of Easton, Pa., 
and had one son, the Rev''. Thomas Pomp, of Easton, who died a few years ago, who 
was 2 Brother to my father. I now will give the family: 



72 THE DOTTERER FA:\nEY. 

Peninah Dotterer, born Feby. 7''', 1753. 

Anna Dotterer, born December 21, 1756. 

Elizabeth Dotterer, l)orn May 7, 1759. 

Henry Dotterer, born July 25, 1762. 

Mary Dotterer, born Dec. 25, 1764. 

Frederick Dotterer, born Sept. 13, 1769. 
George Philip Dotterer departed this life 23'''^ of Augupt, 1771, aged 41 yrs., 11 
nu). 13 <lays; the father of the above. 

I have recollection of some one of Father's family, shortly after we moved to 
Jersey, of being to see ns; perhaps the aunt you speak of. One of his sisters married 
a Yost that lived in Berks County, I think at Oley, as there was one of the sons sent 
to Phil" to go to school with us. One of his sisters married Dukehart, and the family 
are living in Baltimore. One other married a Fryer ami one a Barnhart, who was, 
or some of the family, living in Baltimore some years ago 

I have it in my mind that my Grand Father Dotterer was born in the U. S., but 
I may be mistaken. I l)elieve their residence was in Berks County, as I have heard 
my father speak of property, in that or the adjoining County. I have no recollec- 
tion of Conrad Dotterer learning the Millwright trade with him, yet he may when 
father lived in Bucks County on the Delaware, where he had mills I was very 
small. I recollect when he lived where the Bethlehem and Easton road fork'', about 
14 miles this side of Easton; he had some of his relatives with him then. 

Some time in the fall when in the city I saw on Market street some goods 
marked Amos Dotterer. I made incjuiry at the store but they coulil'not tell me 
where he was from. My uncle Frederick had a son Amos, who worked for my 
father at Bellows making and Father fitted him out a few years afterwards to go to 
the different forges & furnaces in Penn" to sell rights to use his Patent. Have you 
any knowledge of this Amos? 

My father was in some way related to B. H. Latrobe, the father of tht- i)resent 
Latrobe. He was also related to Gov. Snyder of Penn". There is an Antis at 
Harrisburgh, who is a relative. Some 2 yrs. ago Henry Dukehart, of Baltimore, was 
here, and he informd me if I went to Harrisburgh he wished to see me. 

I remain yrs Respectfully, 
Mr. Henry S. Dotterer, Phil". JAS. D. DOTTERER. 

A LETTEi? BY REV. NICHOLAS POMP. 

The writer found, and Mrs. Rebecca S. Dotterer copied, on the 5th 
of February, 1896, in the archives of the Reformed Chunth of the Nether- 
lands, at The Hague, an original letter written by Rev. Nicholas Pouij), 
dated at Falkner Swamp, November 12, 1771, which is now for tlie first 

time published: 

IIocli Ehrwurdige und Hochgelehrte 

herren Insonders geliebte ' 

V;etter Im Herrn. 

Eur: Hoc-h p]hrw: wollen nicht ungeneigt vernehmen das ich mich unterstehe 
um eine besondere gutthath anzusuchen. Es betrifft meinen vatter welcher sich vor 
diese zeit in Teutschland in einem ser armen zustan<l befindet, er hat mich schon in 
etlichen lirieffen sehr ernstlich angesprochen, das ich ihm etwas gelt schicken miege 
und oV) ich schon das meinige sehr nothwendig brauche so gehet mir doch die noth 
meines vatters «o zu herzen das ich nicht eher ruhig sein kan bis er etwas von mir 
bekomt. Weil ich aber keine sichere gelegenheit habe gelt nach meinem vatterland 
zu senden, so haVje Eur: Hoch Ehrw: darum geziemend bitten wollen 50 oder 60 
gulden aus den liebes gaben, die sie uns werden Herein senden an meinen vatter zu 
schicken auff die art wie Er: Hoch Erw: an D. Otterbeins mutter gesendet haben. 



CONRAD DOTTERER. - 73 

Icli will licriiacli dfiii Krw : ('(rtus Was jfi'ld zn rechtiT zeit <>liiu' an vaml bt^- 
zahlen. Das u'flii knniicn I'!\v: IIocli Krw: eiitvt-dcr an Ilcrifu i)iutnr Wuiul iiacii 
Hevilelbefii si'iidrn welcher I's luit K'iclu'r <i('l(H'('iilu'it nacli Zweyhnicken, uiul von 
(lort nach iiu'intMu vatti'v seiiden kan otlvr es kan audi inu'diato auff der pont an 
mt'incn xattci' un'sand werdcn. 

Ey nins aber mit Franztpsischen geld iresi-hicken oder niit Hollandisrhen Dui-aten 
welches in nieinem vatterland gan,iJ:l)ar ist. Die addresse an ineinem Vatter kan niit 
folgender worden geniacht werden: An Ilerrcn IVter Doinj), Senior einwoner zu 
Manbuechel ini oberambt Kussel, Herzogtliuui Zweyhrurken. 

Eur: Hoch Elirw: woUen mir e8 doch nieht uebel nehnien dasz ich niich unter- 
stehe so vieles zu l)itten die noth nieines arnien vatters zvving inieh dazu, und weil 
mir dero Hebe gegen nothleidenden genug bekandt ist, so verharre in der angeneh- 
nien Hoffnung dasz nieinem gesuch eine geneigte willfalirung geschehe. Uebrigens 
l)estehe nut gezieniendeni Eespect. 

Hoch Ehrwardige und Hochgelerte Herrn sehr geneigte gcenner und Vtetter. 
Dero Schuldiger diener, N: BOMP, V. D. M. 

dab. falckner schwani den 12ten Nov: 1771. 

NOTEy. 
Tlio sjKdii^ors ft)!' George Philip Dotterer, at his baplisni, were his 
gran<l])arentt5, George PhiHp Dodderer and his wife. (See page 27.) 

Philip and Elizabeth Dotterer were sponsors for EHzabcth, daughter 
«'f ("dtirad and .JuHanna Margaretta Dotterer, born September 5, 1758, 
and bai)tizedthe same year. This Conrad Dotterer was a younger brother 
of George Philip Dotterer. A certificate of tliis baptism was, in April, 
in lS8o, the possession of William Duttera, Senior, of Littlestown, Pa. 

1759, November 11. Philipp, son of Henry Antes, was liaptized. 
He was just ten Aveeks old. Testes, Philipp Dotterer et Elizabeth, uxor 
ejus.— Falkner Swamp Reformed Church Record. This Hcr.ry Antes was 
a brother to EKzabeth, wife of George Philip Dotterer. 

December 25, 1763 or 1764, Philip Dotterer and wife Elizabeth were 
sponsors of Sarah Antes, daughter of Wilhelm and Christina Antes; ))ap- 
tism by the ])astor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church. 

REFERENCES. 

Family Record of Henry Antes. See Perkionien Region, Volume One, page 51. 

Henry Antes. See Henry Antes — A Man of .Mark. By Henry S. Dotterer. 
Pul^lished in Schwenksville, Pa., Item ('lip])ings preserved in Scrap Book in 
l^ibrary of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1 hiladelphia. 

Rev. Nicholas Pomp and Rev. Thomas Pomp. See biographical skt'tches in 
Ilcni-y Harbaugh's I'^athers of the < icrman Kefoiincil ('Innch. 

11. CONRAD DOTTERER CMichael Dotterer', (leorge Philip 
Dodderer'). Born, in Frederick township, Philadelphia (now Mont- 
gomery) county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1731; at baptism he received 
the name Johann Conrad, his sponsor lieing Johann Conrad Dotterer, his 
uncle; married .luliana Reiif; died, near Littlestown, Pa., January 18, 



74 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

1808. Juliana Reiff died Noveiuber 0, 1805, aged sixty-six y(>ars, ten 
months, twenty-five days. Children: 

^^ 72. Conrad Dotterer^ born July 10, 1756. 

73. Elizabeth Dotterer*, born September 5, 1758. 

74. Mary Margaret Dotterer*, born March 15, 1761. 

75. John Dutterer^ born April 1, 1763. 

76. Frederick Dutterer*, born November 11, 1764. 

77. JuHana Dotterer*, born April 22, 1768. 

78. Michael Dutterer^ born December 12, 1774. 

79. Anna Maria Dotterer*, born Se})tember 7, 1779. 

80. George Duttera*, born August 16, 1784. 

Conrad Dotterer settled in York (siuce 1800 Adams) county. Pa., 
near the Maryland border, in the immediate vicinity of the present 
Littlestown, Pa. He was a farmer. In the tax lists we find him assessed: 

1779, Conrad Dotter, Mount Pleasant township, 200 acres; tax, £35 0. 

1780, Conrad Dodero, Heidelbei-g township, 192 acres, 4 hoises, 4 (tattle; 
tax, £56 15 0. 1781. Mount Pleasant township, 200 acres; tax, £3 10 0. 

1781, Heidelberg township, 200 acres, 1 horse, 1 cow; tax, £9 5 0. In 
the list of -taxables of Heidelberg townsliip, York county, for 1783, is 
the name of Conrad Dottora, who was assessed £980 in specie on 200 
acres of land, four horses, four cattle and ten sheep; and his family con- 
sisted of eight persons. 

Conrad Dotterer' s father, Michael Dotterer, provided farms for his 
eldest and his third sons, as shown on page 37. It is not im})iobable 
that Conrad Dotterer, the second son, was favored in like manner. The 
two hundred acres in Bucks county, surveyed to Michael Dotterer Janu- 
ary. 20, 1747, may have been transferred by him to his second son, 
Conrad, when the latter reached manhood. We do not knt)w in which 
township this land lay. The records, however, show that in Octol)er, 1765, 
Conrad Dotterer was a resident of Heidelberg township, Northampton 
county. We also learn from the York county records that on October 12, 
1765, Conrad Dotterer, of Heidelberg township, Northampton county, 
yeoman, bought of John Schreyer (or Schreiber), of Germany township, 
York county, a tract of 197 acres, 36 perches, with six per cent allow- 
ances, located in Germany township. Al)0ut 1765, therefore, is the date 
of Conrad Dotterer' s removal to York county. In 1767, his brother-in- 
law, Daniel Troxell, husband of Sophia Dotterer, followed him, and also 
settled in York county. 

A stone house built by Conrad Dotterer about 1773 still stood, in 
April, 1883, upon the property formerly owned by him. 

Conrad Dotterer and his wife were members of Christ Reformed 
church, about two miles distant from Littlestown, Pa. They are buried 
in the large cemetery of this church. Their graves are marked by stones 
bearing these words: 



CONRAD DOTTERER. 75 

In IliiT 

memorv of niliet (Ut leitn' voii 
JULIANA Dotteri), Conrad Diittra 

wife of Conrod Dottero irestorhen den ISten 

Died Nov. Bth, 1805 I(>iut ISOS alter SO 
Aged 66 yrp. 10 mos. 25 days. lahre 

Conrod Doherer, of Conewago township, Adams county, Pennsyl- 
vania, made a will in January, 1808, which was prohatcd Fel)ruary 16, 
1808. He makes mention of his nine children. His eldest daughters, 
Elizabeth and Margaret, were both deceased, hut to tlieir children he gave 
a section of land in Lislion and Columbiana ct.unty. No. 4. To his son 
Michael he gave a half-section in Lisbon county, No. 14. 'i'o his daugh- 
ter, Anna Mary, wife of Jonathan Routson, he gave a half-section. John 
Dotterer and George Dotterer, the executors of his estate, rendered their 
acccnnit ^Nlay 80. 1800. which showed for distribution a l)alance of S5105.89. 

NOTES. 

Conrad Dotterer was confirmed a member of Falkner Swam]) Re- 
formed church at Easter, 1749. 

Conrad Hotter, with seven other persons, was sponsor for Daniel 
Troxell, son of Daniel and Sophia (Dotterer) Troxell, born March 8, 
1750, and baptized May 6, 1750. This baptism is recorded in the books 
of Jordan Lutheran church, in Lehigh county, Pa. Sophia Dotttirer was 
a sister to Conrad Dotterer. — 

In the will of Michael Dotterer, father of Conrad Dotterer (see page 
26), made on the 10th day of October, 1783, in York county, his "be- 
loved son, Conrad Dotterer," is ai)pointed executor. Upon the death of 
the testator, which occurred in Montgomery county, Conrad Dotterer, on 
the 29th of September, 1786, before the Register of Wills of ^'oi-k count v, 
renounced all right and title to the executorship. 

Conrad Dotterer was one of the building committee of Christ Church 
(Kreuz Kirche), near Littlestown, when it was reluiilt in 1798. 

As early as July 14, 1765, a Michael Dotterer, of Cermany township. 
York county, yeoman, was mortgagee of Idrich Hostelter in the sum of 
.£55 15 (conditioned on the payment of £27 17 6). Hostetter paid 
this debt by the sale to Michael Dotterer "in fair and open mark(>t/' of 
2000 sheaves of wheat, one black mare, 2 yearling heifers, an old wagon, 
and one plough and irons. August 11, 1779, Michael Dotterer, having 
died, Michael Dotterer, Senior, his administrator, released Ulrich Hos- 
tetter. Michael Dotterer, Senior, administrator of Micliael Dotterer, 
Junior, exhibited his account August 2(5, 1779. Among the payments 
made by the administrator were: £6 17 o to John Ilefnor, £16 11 7 to 
Conrad Dotterer to discharge bond and interest. The Michael Dotterer, 



76 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Jr. , here concerned was not the son of Michael Dotterer, Sr. His iden- 
tity remains to be ascertained. 

A part of Heidelberg township, York county, became, after the 
erection of Adams county, in 1800. and is now, Conewago township, in 
the latter county. — 

John Duttera, Tiranite Hill, Adams county, Pa., August 6, 187S, 
writes: "My grandmother died November 6, 1805. Her maiden name was 
Julian Rife." Thi.> John Duttera was a son of George Duttera (80), l)orn 
August 16, 1784. 

12. MARGARET DOTTERER^ (Michael Dotterer^ George Phihp 
Dodderer'). Born June 27, 1733; named at baptism Maria Margaretta; 
her sponsors were Herman Fisher (her mother's brother) and wife, and 
baptism is recorded in the church book of New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
congregation; at Easter, 1749, she was confiimed and admitted to the com- 
munion of the Falkner Swamp Reformed congregation. 

She is mentioned as Margreat Doterer in her father's will (page 26), 
whicli was niade October 10, 1783. She was therefore not married at 
that date, when she was upwards of fifty years old. 

The administrators of the estate of George Schneider, of New Han- 
over township, paid to the estate of Margt. Dutrow £24 19 0, in their 
account May 22, 1772. 

In the records of the Overseers of the Poor of New Hanover township 
is the following contract made for the support of a Margaret Dotterer. It 
seems improbable that it refers to our subject, in view of the prosperous 
circumstances of her brother, Michael Dotterer, who lived close l)y. 

1799, July '^ 20''. tililjina Seybert verspricht die Margretha Dottere zu halten 

auf acht Monath vom oljige Data an bis den 17'^° M^ertz 1800 in Kost Loschinmg 

und Betting wie billig und recht, fuer die Sunia von £7 H shilling in gesunden nnd 

Kraneken tagen Das Taunschip bezahlt den Dockter und Kleidung und in Todes fall 

die Leichen unikosten. 

ihr 
FILLBINA X SEYBERT. 

. iiierck 

DAVID riERBEL, 1 ,. 
Zeugen: Samuel Siiuch. FRANCIS BKtONY / ^^^^^i^^^ei"^- 

13. MICHAEL DOTTERER^' (Michael Dotterer^ George Pliilii. 
Dodderer'). Born in Frederick township, Octol)er 31, 173-"); baptized, 
by Rev. John Henry Goetschy, at New Goshenhoppen church, February 
5, 1738 — sponsors, Joh. Wendel ^^'eiant (Wiend) and his wife; married 
(first) Anna Reiff, and (second), October 12, 1766, Catharine Reiff; died, , 
in Frederick township, March 12, 1811. Anna Reiff, born February 23, 
1741; died January 30, 1766. Catharine Reiff, born February 11, 1745; 
died November 16, 1820. Anna Reiff' and Catliarine Reiff were sisters. 



MICHAEL DOTTERER. 77 

Children of Michael Dotterer and Aniia Reiff: 
SI. Phi]ip]>ina Dotterer', i)orn June 22, 1761. 

82. Phili]) i)..i1eivr', l...ni .Inly 17, 1763. 

83. Peter Dotterert. 

84. ^lichael Dotterer'. Itoin .lamiary 30, 17()6. 
Children of Michael Dotterer and Catharine Reiff: 

85. John Dotterer', born in 1767; baptized Decenib(n- 25, 1767. 

86. Conrad Dotterer*, born April 9, 17<;9. 

87. Anna Maria Dotterer \ born May 11. 1773. 

88. Catharina Dotterer*, born August <>. 1778. 

Noven)ber 14, 1763, Michael Dotterer purchased of liis parents, 
Michael and Anna Maria Dotterer, two adjoining tracts, of one liundred 
and tlfty acres and fifty acres, in Frederick township, and facing New 
Hanover township, located on the northeast side of Society run. See 
page 38. 

In 1765, he purchased of Peter Muml^auer, 36 acres of land in the 
same township, also fronting New Hanover township, and adjoining on 
th(^ northeast the previous purchase. 

June 21, 1784, Michael Dotterer and Michael Krebs bought jointly 
of Michael Hilberd and Anna Maria his wife, one hundred and eighteen 
acres and one hundred and ten perches in New Hanover. March 16, 
17i)l, Michael Dotterer acquired Michael Krebs' moiety. May 27, 1794, 
he sold eighty acres fifty-two perches of this tract of Peter Richards, of 
Hereford, John Richards, of New Hanover, and Charles Jolly, of ]Marl- 
borough, ironmasters, for £265 1 5. In 1769, Mi(;hael Dudderow, Jr., 
of Frederick township, was taxed £15 4 0, Proprietary tax, on 220 acres, 
3 horses and 3 cattle. In 1774 Michael Dotterer, of Frederick township, 
was taxed £17 17 4, Provincial tax, on 220 acres of land, 2 horses and 4 
cattle. In 1776, the assessor of Frederick township makes tins return foi- 
Michael Dotterer: 220 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows. Maintains bis parents. 
In 1779 Michael Tedrow, of Frederick township, was assessed £14 for 
Su})i)ly tax. It appears five shillings in the pound was collected, and 
the record shows that Michael Detrow paid £3 10 0. In 1780, the 
Effective Supply tax was £3 in the £100. Michael Dottrer, of Frederick 
township, was assessed on a valuation of £;3S.30, a tax of £115 10 0. In 
1784 he is rated for 220 acres, 4 horses, 4 cows. In 1799 he is taxed for 
one cow and one dog. From 1799 t(» ISU, the farm is returned by the 
assessor in the name of Conrad Dotterer, indicating that Michael Dotterer 
had relinquished farming and that his son Conrad became tenant. 

In the tax duplicate of 1793, for Frederick township, is this mem- 
orandum: "Please return a suitable person for collector — Francis Leidy 
or Michael Dotterer." In 1800, Michael Dotterer was tax collector for 
the township. 

In 1804, the farm was reduced Ijy tbe sale of 93 acres to George Nyce. 



78 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

HIS POLITICS. 

When the great national parties were formed after the administration 
of President George Washington, Mic^hael Dotterer identified himself with 
the Republican Democratic party, which was led by Thomas Jefferson. 

HIS CHURCH CONNECTION. 

INIichael Dotterer and family were members of the Falkner Swamp 
Reformed congregation. In 1790, he was a member of the Iniilding (uim- 
mittee which erected the large brick church edifice which still stands. To 
a special subscription to pay off the debt remaining on the new church, 
collected in 1802, Michael Dotterer contributed £6 0, and his sons, 
Michael, .Jr., and Conrad, £2 5 each. 

In the church l:)ook of the congregation are these entries: 

Nov. 29, 17H1, was baptized Philippina, Michael Dotterer, junior's, daughter, 
born 22nd June. Sponsors, Anna Maria Dotterer and Jacob Weyand. 

Johaiuies, son of Michael and Catharina Dotterer, was baptized 25th Decem- 
ber, 1767. 

Catharina, daughtei- of Michael and Cathrina Dotterer, born August 20, 1778^^ 
baptized October 9, 1 778. 

At Easter, 1753, Michael, son of Michael Dotterer, 18 years of age, was confirm- 
ed. At Pentecost, 1777, Philippina Dotter, aged 16, and Phillip Dotter, 14 years, 
children of Michael Dotter, were confirmed. 

1781. Peter Dotter and Michael Dotter, 15 years, sons of Michael Dotter, I'on- 
firmed, June 9. 

1811, March 14. Michael Dotterer, aged 75 years, 4 months, 12 days, was buried. 

HIS WILL. 
Michael Dotterer made a will, July 16, 1808, in which he made 
these provisi(jns; 

I give and l)equeath unto my l)eloved wife Catharine one bed with bedstead and 
all thereto belonging, one chest with all the linnen, and house utensils therein house 
furniture and kitchen utensils to the amount of 5.£ to l)e taken at the appraisement, 
25 yds. of flaxen linen and 25£ in gold or silver, lawful money of Pennsylvania; and 
my hereinafter named executors shall annually pay unto her or cause to be paid her 
the interest of 500£, the first such interest (or 30£) she shall receive one year after 
my decease to hold the same to her, her heirs and assigns forever, in lieu and full 
satisfaction of her dower or thirds out of my estate. And it is my wall that as soon 
as conveniently may be after my decease all the residue of my estate both real and 
personal shall be sold at public sale to the l)est advantage of my heirs, and the monies 
arising out of such sale shall be divided amongst my children and grandchildren in 
manner following, to wit: I give and bequeath unto the three children of my son 
Peter Dotterer deceased the sum of 300£ lawful money of America to be equally 
divided between them and to be paid them one year after the decease of my wife or 
one year after my decease if I should survive her . . . but in case either of 
them should die under age and without lawful issue such share shall be ecpially 
divided amongst the survivors of them. I also give and l)equeath unto my daughter 
Philibina, late the wife of Henry Mowrer, now the wife of George Walter, the inter- 
est of 150£ to be paid to her annually, the first whereof one year after my decease, 
which interest she is to receive during life time, and after her decease the said prin- 
cipal sum of 150£ money aforesaid shall be equally divided amongst her three chil- 
dren of said Henry Mowrer her first husband, to-wit: Michael, Polly and Henry 
Mowrer, and jiaid them resx)ectively one year after their mother's decease . . . 



MICHAEL DOTTEHKrv. 70 

All the icsiihu' of my cstatu I j^ive and hciiiiratli iiiitd my six children to wit: i'liiliji, 
Michael, John, Conrad, .Alaria, ami Catharine, to be e(|ually divideil amont^st 
tliem 

TIk' I'litire estate amounted to S121S1 25^. Miehael Dottena- and 
Conrad Dotterer (sons) and Jacoli Ilanek were executors. 

March 26, 1811, Benjamin Markley and Henry Krebs made an in- 
ventory and appraisement of the personal property, wliich amounted to 
S4255.o0^, including bonds, notes and hook accotnits, for $8933.50^. 
The executors' accomit was passed July 8, 1812. They charge them- 
selves with $6960.00, sum for wliich 130 acres and SO ]»('i'ehes of land 
were sold to Wendel Wieand, and with $966.00, for wliich ,«um 40 acres 
40 perches of land were sold to Conrad Dott«rer, son of the decedent. 
Wendel Wieand, however, did not retain his purchase, for John Mock 
became the owner of it, and lived upon it until his death, a period of 
nearly forty years. 

Michael Dotterer' s farm was advantageously located on the eastern 
bank of Society run, as described on page 26. It contained, until 
1804. two hundred and thirty-six acres. To the original small dwelling 
erected by his father Michael Dotterer built an addition, more than 
doubling the capacity of the house. He was a prosperous farmer, and 
stood high in the community. 

Michael Dotterer was captain of a company of Philadelphia county 
militia attached to the Sixth Battalion in 1777 and 1778. Colonel 
William Antes, Es(]., a sub-lieutenant for the ct)unty, jtaid Captain 
Michael Dotterer £321 lOs. , the amount of his pay-roll, Fel)ruary 28, 
1778. All the militia of Frederick township and part of Limerick town- 
ship were enrolled in his company. 

Michael Dotterer died in the house by the side of Society rim, on his 
farm, and he was buried, March 14, 1811, in the graveyard which adjoins 
Bertolet's Mennonite meeting house. Both his wives also rest there. 
All three graves have suitable stones. The words on the headstones are: 

Hier Hier 

rnhen die GHeder rul.et der Loibe der 

des wevland gewesenen veititorbeneii 

MICHAEL DOTTEREE. ANNA DOTTEHKK, 

Er wurde gebohren den Slsten October Eine gebohrne Keiffen, nnd gewe- 

17ao, Trat in die Ehe mit Ainia seiie Ehefran dcs IMicdiael Itoiterer. 

Keiffen mit welcher er 5 Jahr und Sie wnixle gebohren im .lahr 1740 

14 Tage in der Ehe lebte und zeugten 4 und staib den ."JOsien .Tamiary, 17(>(), 

Kinder, 3 Stehne und 1 Tocbter, naeli- iiiies alters ohiigefehr L'li .lahicn. 
dem begab er sich mit Catharina Keiffen 

in der Ehe mit welcher er 44 Jahre und 5 "ii'>' 

:\ronathe in der p:he lebte und zeugten 4 ''"''^'t ili'i' Leib 

Kinder, 2 Scebne und 2 Tcechter, und tier verstorbenen 

starb den 12ten Mertz, 1811, seines al- CATH AKINA D( )TTERER, 

ters 75 Jahre 4 Monathe und 12 tage Ehebnu des Michael 

sein Leichentext Evangeliuin S. Luca am D^)tterer, Eiiie gebohrne 

12tenCapitel vers37:SeligsinddieKnechte lieiffen. Sie wurde gebohren 

die der Herr so er kouimt wachend lindet. <^«i^ 1 1 1«» P'ebruary, 1 745, 

und starb den Kiten Novembci- 

1S20, brachte ihre alter auf 

75 .lahr 9 Monatlie u. 5 tage. 



80 TIIK DOTTERER FAMILY. 

niS REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES. 

The services of Michael Dotterer in assisting in the establishment of 
American Independence during the War of the Revolution, were stated as 
follows, in an application, made October 28, 1895, by the compiler of 
this work, for membership for himself in the Society of the Pennsylvania 
Sons of the Revolution, which application was granted: 

Michael Dotterer \va.s Captain of a Coiupan}' ol ^Militia of the Sixth Battalion of 
Philadelphia County, commanded by Colonel Fredericl^ Antes. Captain Dotterer"s 
Company was mustered May 2(i, 1777, uiul consisted of all tlie men liable to military 
duty in Frederick township, and part of those in the adjoining township of 
Limerick. In August. 1777, the entire eight classes of his Company and the other 
companies of the Sixth Battalion were called upon to march. (See Pamphlet in the 
Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, entitled "State of 
the Accounts of Wm. Antes, Esq., Sub-Lieutenant of Philadelphia County," consist- 
ing of 17 pages, signed by John Nicholson, Comptroller-General's office, dated 
December, 1782; on pages 4-8 names of persons fined for non-performance of duty 
when called to march; Account No. Ill names of delinquents at muster May 26, 
1777.) On the 1 1th day of September, 1777, the day of the Battle of Brandywine, 
the said Sixth Battalion, Colonel Antes, of which Captain Dotterer's company formed 
apart, was ordered by the Supreme Executive Committee, then in session at Phila- 
delphia, to rendezvous immediately at Swedes' Ford, on the Schuylkill River, a 
point just below the present Norristown. (See minutes of the Supreme Executive 
Council of Pennsylvania (Colonial Records), Vol. XL Harrisburg: Printed by 
Theo. Fenn&Co. 1852. Page 301: "Ordered, That Colo. Heisler, Colo. Corsey, 
Colo. Antis, & Colo. Deane's respective Battalions do immediately rendezvous at the 
Sweed's Ford," etc. Subsequently, probably in the Spring of 1778, the first four 
classes of the said Sixth Battalion, including Captain Dotterer's Company, were 
again called upon to march. [See State of Accounts of Wm. Antes, Esq., Sub-Lieu- 
tenant, before mentioned, Account No. II, pages 1) and 10.] 

Captain Michael Dotterer was paid by William Antes, Esq., Sub-Lieutenant for 
Philadelphia County, the amount of his pay roll, February 28, 1778, £321 10 0, 
which sum was charged to the debit of the United States, as appears in the printed 
Accounts of the Military Expenses of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. 
[See the before-n:ientioned State of Accounts of William Antes, Esq., Sub-Lieutenant, 
page 2.] Michael Dotterer received from the State of Peinisylvania Depreciation 
Pay by donation of land. His name appears in a list of Revolutionary soldiers. 
[See Pennsylvania in tlie War of the Revolution, Associators and Militia, Vol. I. 
Edited by William H. Egle, M. D. Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, State Printer, 1887. 
Page 58.] It also appears in an index to names of receivers of depreciation pay, 
filed at Harrisburg. [See letter of AVm. II. Egle, State Librarian, Harrisburg, July 
5, 1895.] It is a tradition in the family that he owned lands in the interior of the 
State, but that the, binds were sold for delinquent taxes. 

A neighbors' DISPITE DECIDED AT LAW. 

There was a long-standing dispute between the Nyces and the Dot- 
terers respecting the true dividing line between the lands. Upon the 
death of Michael Dotterer this feud became a subject of litigation, and was 
decided according to the following judgment, copied from the Montgomery 
county records: 



MICHAEL DOTTEIIER. 81 

George Nyce Lawyers, 

vs. Mariclev, 

Conrad Dotteror WRIT OF K.IKCT-MENT. Ross. ' 

Aug. 22, 1812. Jury could not agree, aud were discharged. 

Nov. 19, 1812, another jiny failed to agn^e and were discliarged, and "all matters 
in variance in tiiis cause are referred by agreement of parties under tiie Act of 170o 
«o Samuel Baird (Pottsgrove), John Elliott (Lower Merion) and Thomas Livezey 
(Upper Dublin), or any two of them, ex parte rule on si.x days notice, who reported 
that they find for the defendant and awaid that a line froui a large white oack 
(Blocked which appears to have been marked about ninety years ago) bearing N- 
49° oiy W. to a stone corner of a tract surveyed by David 8ciudtz on the tenth day 
of March A. D. 17()1, containing 9 acres 05 perches for George Nice being also a 
corner of a lot containing (55 acres surveyed by the said David Sciiullz for the said 
George Nice on the 28th day of Feb. A. D. 1758 be continued the same course N. 
49° 5*y W. to the line of New Hanover tp. which we adjudge to be the true line of 
the lands in dispute between the said parties. 

Feb. 15, 18i:l, Judg' nisi. 

RESCUED FROM DROWNING. 

About seventy yards soutlnvest of the dwelling house, Society run is 
bordered, on the side opposite the Dotterer land, by a natural wall of rock; 
a palisade rises some ten or fifteen feet; above this grew stately, pungent 
hemlocks whose branches overhung the stream, and back of these grew 
oak, hickory and ash. ' The Nvce familv owned the land here for at 
least six generations. On a certain occasion a thrilling incident occurred 
here, which nearly cost Michael Dotterer his life. It was his custom, 
when returning from the neigh bcn'ing store or from public gatherings, to 
make a short-cut through Nyce's woods, and to cross by walking over the 
trunk of a tree which had fallen across the run. On this occasion the 
stream was swollen b}' recent rains. Catharine, his wife, told her son 
Conrad to go to the creek to assist his father in making the dangerous 
crossing. Conrad did so. Notwithstanding this precaution, the father 
slipped oft" the log into the rushing waters. He wore a coat with short 
tails. Conrad succeeded in grasping one of the coat tails, and bringing 
his father safely ashore. Grateful for liis rescue, Mi( hael told his wife, 
"Der Conrad hat fiinfzig pfund verdient" — Conrad has earned fifty pounds. 
"\\'hnt do you mean?" asked Catharine. ''Conrad has saved my life 
and he shall have fifty pounds as a reward," was the reply. To wliich 
the wife remarked: "If you mean what you say, give Conrad the money 
now." "No, not now," he said; "but it will be all right in due time." 
The mother then turned to her son, saying, "Conrad, you need work no 
more to-day; you have saved your father (der Alt), and have earned fifty 
pounds — enough for one day." The promised reward was not paid, and 
the father died without making provision for its payment. At the settle- 
ment of the estate, the widow desired the children to allow Conrad the 
£50 before the division. All the sons and daughters agreed to this request, 
but one of the sons-in-law ol)je<;!ted, saying, "Show me in black and white 
('weis mir in schwarz und weiss) that this wa,s to be so, and I shall agree; 



82 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

otherwise, I object." Conrad did not obtain the promised reward at that 
time. But the mother w^as not content. She said it was right that Con- 
rad should have wliat was promised him. She was determined that it 
should be given him. In her will she directed that £50 be paid to Conrad 
before the others, in these words: "I give and bequeath unto my son 
Conrad £50 lawful money of Pennsylvania in advance for divers good 
reasons." 

bertolet's burying ground. 

M'hen Anna Reiff, the first Avife of Michael Dotterer, died, lier burial 
was recorded in the church l)Ook of the New* Hanover Lutheran congrega- 
tion in these Avords: 

Fe])ruarius den Isten 1766 1st deni junge Michael Dotterer Ehfrau auf Zacharias 
Neisz' land ])eji;raben worden alt 24 jahr 11 nionat und 1 woch. 

Translation: February 1, 176G, Michael Dotterer, Junior's, wife was 
buried upon Zacharias Nyce's Land; aged 24 years, 11 montlis, one week. 

She was probably not the first to be buried at this spot. It is locatetl 
in the western part of Frede.ick townshij), distant about one mile from 
the home in which she died. Many of the members of the neighboring 
families have since been buried here. I'he place is now named Bertolet's 
Burying Ground. Bertolet's Mennonite meeting house stands near the 
graveyard. See Theodore W. Bean's History of Montgomery County 
(1884), page 840. 

The graves of Michael Dotterer anil in^ ^vives face to the east. In 18G2 
a mull)erry tree shaded them, but this has l)een cut down. Anna lies at 
the foot of her husband; Catharina at his right. The headstones of 
Michael and Anna Dotterer stand three feet above ground; that of Cath- 
rtna one and a half feet. The stones are blue marble; the lettering is in 
German, and wat- done by an excellent w^orkman. 

Bertolet's Burying Ground Association was incorporated, in the Court 
of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, on the 21st day of April, 1890- 
The association has no capital stock, and it is not conducted for profit. 
See Perkiomen Region, Volume- One, ])age 196. 

THE widow's will. 

Catharine Dotterer, Avidow of Michael Dotterer, made a Avill, on the 
23d of April, 1814, which was probated on the 2d of December, 1820. 
She directed this disposition of her estate: "My property shall be sold as 
soon as convenient, and the money arising out of such sale together with 
the money due me on bonds, notes and book account, shall, after my 
debts and fuueral expenses are paid, be divided as follows, to wit: I give 
and bequeath unto my son Conrad Dotterer £50, laAvful money of Penn- 
sylvania, in advance for divers good reasons. All the rest and residue of 
my estate shall be equally divided amongst my four children, to Avit: 
John Dotterer, Conrad Dottere, Maria, Avife of Jacob Smith, and Cath- 



JACOB DOTTERER. 83 

arine, the wife of Wendle Wiaut, share and share ahke." She nominated 
Wendle Wiant sole executor. 

NOTES. 
In 1862, EHza (Dotterer) Boyer, a grancUlaufihter of Michael and 
Catharine Dotterer, said: Catharine Dotterer, widow of Michael Dotterer, 
remained at the homestead on Society run, Hving in a log house, after the 
property had passed into the ownership of John ^Nlock. 

]\Iichael Dotterer and wife were sponsoi-s for Catharina Maurer, 
daughter of Henry and P}ii]ii>i)ina (Dotterer) Maurer, born August 12, 
1787; l)aptized,by the pastor of the Goshenhoppen charge, October 21,1787. 

April 6, 1801, Michael Dotterer and wife Catliarine were s])onsors for 
Catharine JaTger (Yerger), daughter of Andreas and Philippina Ju'rger, 
baptized by the pastor of New Hanover Lutheran church. 

Catharine (Reiif ) Dotterer was remembered by her grandson, Philip 
Dotterer (son of Conrad Dotterer), as a short and rather stout person. 

Pierre Rochon was stopping at the house of Michael Dotterer when a 
heavy thunder storm came up, and lightning struck the barn, burning it 
to the ground. This incident was narrated by the late John li^idemiller, 
a grand.son of Rochon, at Gieen Lane, Pa., August 7, 1883. 

Michael Dotterer, the militia captain of 1777 and 1778, kept his 
Continental hat in a three-cornered box. This hat l)Ox can^.e into the 
possession of Daniel Hollowl)ush, of New Hanover township. Early in 
the year 1880, Hollewliush advertised for sale his personal effects. An 
effort was made, through the late George 8. Nyce, of Frederick, to secure 
this Revolutionary relic, but without success. 

Anna DottenT died on January oO, 1 7(56, the day of the l)irth of her 
son Michael. The date of birth of her son Peter is nowhere recorded. 
The record of confirmations of Falkner Swamp Refonned church show 
that tlie brothers Peter Dotterer and Michael Dotterer were both confirmed 
June 9, 1781, and their ages are given as fiftoen years. They may have 
been twins. 

14. .JACOB DOTTERER^^ (Michael Dotterer-, George Philip Dod- 
derer'). Born, in Frederick townshi}*, .Tuly 4, 17.'57; baptized, by Rev. 
J<»hn Henry Gcetschy, pastor of New Goshenhoppen Reformed <'hurch, 
February 5, 1738, and given the name Johann Jacob, tiie sponsors being 
Jacob Fisher and Soi)hia Elizabeth, his granditarents; confirmed, at 
Easter, 1753, a meml)er of Falkner Swamp lU'formed church. In the 
record of Falkner Swamp Reformed church occurs the l>aptism, without 
date, of a son of Jacob Dotterer: 



84 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

89. Michael Dotterer*, born January 1, 1762. Sponsors, the 

parents. 

There is nothing further to indicate that the father of this child was 
the subject of this sketch. 

Our knowledge of Jacob Dotterer ends here. Whether he received 
from his father a farm, as^^e did the other sons, is not known; nor is 
there any clue as to the time he left the paternal home, or where he located. 

18. ANNA MARIA DOTTERER' (Michael Dotterer% George 
Philip Dodderer^). Born, in Frederick township, January 24, 1745; 
sponsors at baptism, Conrad Grob and wife; married Reiff. 

In the will of INIichael Dotterer, the father of Anna Maria Dotterer, 
made in York county, Octo1)er 10, 1783, is mentioned his daughter, Mary 
Rife, which is the only known record of her adult life. 

iO. VERONICA DOTTERER' (Hieronimus Doderer'-, Georgia 
Philip Dodderer^). Born January 7, 1725; married, May 24, 1746, 
Philip Yost; died December 7, 1798. Philip Yost (Jost) was born in 
Europe, May 9, 1718; died in Pottsgrove township, Montgomer}^ county, 
Pennsylvania, October 23, 1804, and was buried on the 23d of Octoljer, 
1804. They are buried at the Reformed and Lutheran Union churdiyanl, 
at Pottstown. Children: 

90. John Yost^ born April 9, 1747. 

91. Herman Yost', born in 1749. 

92. Anna Catharine Yost*, born July 23, 1751. 

93. Elizabeth Yost^ born in 1755. 

94. Jolm Philip Yost*, born August 24, 1757. 

95. Salome Yost*, born July li), 1760. 

96. Barbara Yost*, born June 15, 1763. 

97. Maria Magdalena Yost*, born April 21, 1766. 

98. Rachel Yost*, born August 2, 1769. 

Philip Yost was naturalized September 24, 1755. He resided on a 
farm in that part of New Hanover township which is now included in 
Pottsgrove township. He and his family were members originally of 
Falkner Swamp Reformed congregation, but later of the Pottstown con- 
gregation. 

In 1769, Philip Yost, of Frankfort and New Hanover township, was 
taxed £16 4 Proprietary tax on 200 acres of land, 4 horses and 4 cattle. 

In 1774, Philip Yost, of Frankfort and New Hanover township, was 
assessed £17 1 4, Provincial tax on 200 acres of land, 4 horses and 6 
cattle. 

In 1779, Philip Yost, of Frankfort and New Hanover township, was 
taxed £21 for Effective Supplies. He was assessed this year on 155 
acres, 2 horses, 6 cattle. 



AGNES DOTTEIJER. 85 

In 17S1, the Effective Sup^.ly l;ix of I'liilip Yost, fanner, ui" Xew 
Hanover township, was £7 18 0, on a valuation of £677. 

In 1783, Philij) Yost, of New Hanover townshijt, was assessed for 
Federal tax on 170 acres of land, 1 horse, 2 horncil cattle and 5 sheep. 

In 1770, Philii) Yost was elected an Overseer of the Poor of New 
Hanover tctwnship. In 1782 he was chosen an Overseer of Highways. 

The maiden name of the wife of Hieronimus Dt)derer, and tlie niother 
of Veronica Yost, was Catharina Wesel. This fact was discovered by 
Rev. Prof. ^Villianl J. Hinke, of Philadelphia, in .July, 1902, in the 
records of the Oley congregation of the Moravian Church, which are pre- 
served in tln' archives at Bethlehem, Pa. 

The woi-ds on the headstone at Veronica Yost's grave are; 

Ilicr rulien die 

(ielx'iae der Seelijivci'i'ini^'tcu 

Vronica Jostiii, 

"ebohrne Dottern niid Khefrau <les 

I'liilip .lost. 

Sic war ,u:el)(ihren den 7''^" .lanuary 1725, 

JA'l)tc ia dcr Ehc .^2 Jahre, (i Moiuit unci 

13 Ta^e. 

Rtarh den 7"' Dccbr 1798. 

20. AGNES DOTTERER' (Hieronimus Dodcrer% George IMiilip 
Dodderer'). Born February 14, 1727; married Yost Bitting; died No- 
vember 2, 1785. .lost (.lustus) Bitting, son of Henrich and Anna Kath- 
arina Bottig, was born in Freinsheim, in the Palatinate, July 2, 1718; 
died in New Hanover township, ^Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 
December 25, 1801. rhildn^n: 
99. Henry Bitting'. 

100. .Toseph Bitting*. 

101. Peter Bitting*. 

102. Soi)hia fitting'. 

108. Mary P>itting', born in 1741. 

U)4. Rebecca Bitting*, confirmed in 1771, agi-tl 26. 

105. Rachel Bitting*, born in 1747. 

106. Anna Bitting*. 

107. J(jhn Bitting', boiii .luly (>, 1754. 

108. Ludwig Bitting', born Octolxn- 24, 1759. 

109. Philip Bitting*. 

Upon authority of a warrnnt issued March 25, 1741, three tracts of 
land, situate at the time in I.inierick township, were surveyed — one of 
145^ acres to .Iosei)h Bittin, one of 96| acres to Henry Antes, and (he 
third f)f 106f acres to Henry Deringer, all with allowance for roads. Mr. 
Bitting' s was bounded on the northwest l)y The German Tract, on the 
northeast by lands of George Heebner and Henry Antes, on the soutlieast 
by Joseph Pike's land, and on the southwest by the above-mentioned 
tract of Henry Antes. 



86 THE DOTTEREU FAMILY, 

September 5, 1757, Joseph Bitting was appointed an Overseer of the 
Poor of New Hanover township. 

August 10, 1701, Jost Bitting bought of Mathias Ox and Anna Maria, 
his wife, two tracts in Hanover township, said to contain together 141 
acres — the one 108 acres, and the other 33 acres. Adam Ox, the father 
of Mathias Ox, bought the first tract of Philip Jacob Zittel, who had 
bought it of Henry VanBebber; and the second of Christian Jacobs. 

April 4, 1741, Joseph Bitten (Bitting) paid the Proprietaries £58 4 
in full for 145^ acres (@ £40 per 100 acres) in Limerick township, part 
of a tract of which Henry Antes bought 9()^ acres. 

In 1769, Youst Bitting, of Frankfort and New Hanover township, 
was assessed £28 8 tax on grist nnll, 287 acres of land, 4 horses, and 3 
cattle. In 1774, in same township, Jost Bitten was assessed Provincial 
tax £24 2 8 on grist mill, 4 horses and 6 cattle. 

In the tax list of New Hanover township for 1779 is: Joseph Bitting, 
farmer, 280 acres, 4 horses, 5 cows. Also, in 1779, Josejjh Bidding, of 
Frankfort and New Hanover township, was taxed for Effective Supplies 
£34 0. 

In 1781, for Effective Supplies, Yost Bitting, farmer, of New Hanover 
township, was taxed £10 4 on a valuation of £800. Also, Joseph 
Bitting' s estate £1 5 6 on a valuation of £156. 

In 1783, Yost Bitting, of New Hanover township, was rated for Fed- 
eral tax, on 251 acres of land, 1 horse, 2 head of cattle and 3 sheep. 

In 1757 Joseph Bitting was an Overseer of Highways of New Han- 
over township. 

Jost Bitting made his will November 8, 1793; it was probated Jan- 
uar}' 26, 1802. After paying del)ts, the balance left for distribution was 
£2623 3 9f 

Jost Bitting and Agnes, his wife, arc buried in Leidig's graveyard, 
in Frederick township. Their stones bear these words- 

Hier Hier 

Rnhet In Gott der rnhen die Gebeine eine INlit- 

J^t'il) der Verstorbenen bruders Nainens 

AiigneSea Bittiiigin JOST BITTING 

(TetK)hren d. 14 Feber er wiirde weboren den oten Tag 

Wari 1727 Gestorben Julius ini Jahr 1718, und ii^t 

d: 2 NoVeml)er 1785 gestorben den 25teu Tag Dei'eni- 

ihres ALterS 58 lahr ber im Jahr 1801. 

8 Monnat und 8 Tag Sein Alter war 88 Jahren 5 

:\Ionatten und IS Tagen. 

CHURCH COXNECTIOX. 

The Bitting and Dotterer families were Reformed Church people. 
During the Zinzendorfian movement in Pennsylvania, which was actively 
promoted by Henry Antes, of Frederick township, Jost Bitting became 
identified with the Moravian Church. Henry Antes and Jost Bitting were 
born in the same town, Freinsheim, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and 



ABRAHAM MARK LEY. 87 

they wore near neighbors in Falkner Swnnij). Wo lind in tho i»rinto(l h^t 
of members of tlie Oloy Moravian ooniiregation for 1753 this statement: 

"Just Buetting. Born in 171:5 in Frantzlicini. inn nigra ted in 1723. 
United with the Moravians in 1743." 

In the archives of the Aloravian Chnrch at Bothloheni, Pa., the fol- 
lowing information regarding the connection of Agnes (Dodoror) Butting 
with tho Oley congregation of that (h^nomination was found, in .Julv, 
1902, by Rev. Prof. William .1. llinko, of Philadelphia: 

Agnes Buettingin geb. Dotterin. (Job. in 1727 den 14. Fehr. in Pensylv. Eltern: 
Hieronynuis Dotter, Catharina, gelidine VVeselin. Heyrathete Jost Buetting. 
Tcfchter dieser Ehe: Sojihia, ("atharina. Raliel, Kel)ecca, Anna Maria, Anna. Wunle 
1756 <len 24. Oct. in dieGenieinde aufgenonniien in Oley. 1758 im .Vpril ein Ahend- 
niahlgenoss zuin erstenniale. 

The Bittings of the generations subsequent to Jost Bitting have been, 
generally, members of the Reformed Chnrch. 

REFERENCES. 

Henry Bitting, father of Jost Bitting. See Perkionien Region, Volnnie One, 
page 59. 

Henry Bitting's Passport, and l)rief faniilv record, <lated April 24. 172;i. See 
Schwenksville (Pa.) Item, Julv 7, 1882; also. Historical Notes (clipi)ings) Montgom- 
ery county. By Henry S. DoUerer. In Library of the Historical Societv of Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia. ' 

Freinsheim, in the Palatinate. See Perkiomen Region, Volume Two, page 20. 

21. ABRAHAM ^[ARKLEY' (Barbara Dodderer^ George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born, in Skippack and Perkiomen township, August 12, 
1723; married, in September, 17-15, Anna Barbara Ickes; died, in Skip- 
pack and Perkiomen townsliip, March 20, ISOO. Barbara Ickes, born 
Augusts, 1721; died January 27, 1808. Husband and wife are buried 
at the Lower Mennonite meeting-house, in Perkiomen township, Mont- 
gomery county, Pennsylvania. Children: 

110. Abraham Markley', born .Januniy 8, 1745. 

111. Isaac Markley ^ born October 21, 174(). 

112. Elizabeth Markley \ b,orn April 23, 17411. 

113. Benjamin Markley^ born July 13, 1751. 

114. .Jacob Markley'. * 

115. Maria Barbaia Markley', born Noveml)er 24, 175(5. 
11(5. John Markley', born January 20, 1700. 

117. Daniel Markley*, born January 10, 1763; died Juno 13, 

1764; buried at Lower Mennonite meeting-house, Perkio- 
men townshi]). 

118. Samuel Markley'. 

Aliraham INIarkley was a blacksmith and farmer. In 1785 he held 
the ofiice of Commissioner of Montgomery county. 

In the census of Perkiomen and Skipi)ack township of June 5, 1756, 
is: Al)raham Marcly, blacksmith; 5 cliildren under 21; acres owned, 100 
— cleared 70 acres, sowed with corn 12 acres; held one bound servant; 



88 THE DOTTERER FAMIT.Y, 

owned 3 horses, 1 mare, 4 sheep, and 4 horned cattle. In 1781, Ahraham 
Markley, blacksmith, of Skippack township, is rated, for Effective Supply- 
tax, on a valuation of £356 0, the tax being £5 6 10. In 1782 the 
valuation is £402 0, and the tax £3 3 0. 

Abraham Markley and his family were members of the Providence 
(Trappe) Lutheran congregation. In the books of that church we find 
that he was a contributor to the support of Pastor Muhlenberg in 1760, 
and there, too, are recorded the baptisms and confirmations of some of 
his children. 

PURCHASE AND SALE OF LAND IN NEW HANOVER. 

May 31, 1777, Al)raham Markly, of Perkioming and Skippack town- 
ship, yeoman, purchased of William Antes, of New Hanover townshij), 
yeoman, and r^hristin.- , his wife, for £584, lawful money of Pennsylvania, 
a tract of land in New Hanover township, containing 116 acres, 27 
perches, bounded by lands of Josei)h Bitting, Frederick Antis, Peter 
Dehaven, Jacob Libegood and William Antes. He held this property 
until May 14, 1782, when he (Abraham INIarckley, of Skippack and Perk- 
iomen township, Idacksmith, and Barbara, his wife) sold it to h^s son, 
Benjamin Marckley, of New Hanover township, blacksmith, for £800, 
lawful money of Pennsylvania. Acconi]);inying the deed for this prop- 
ert}' is this interesting 

ABSTRACT OF TITLE. 
Deed. Jolin Henry Sproo;ell to Henry VanBebbev (of Germantown), 500 A 

Nov. 14, 1718. 
Deed. Henry VanBebber to Frederick Antes (of Gernuintown af(jresaid ) for loG A. 

Feb. 20, 1722. 
AVill. Frederick Ante^< ])e(iueathing to his son, Henry Antes, all his plantation, &c., 

in New Hanover tp., dated An;;. 15, 1746. 
Will, 20 Jnly, 1754. Henry Antes, bequeathing to his son, Henry Antes, his planta- 
tion in New Hanover (the above 156 ac. and 20 acres of other land of 
his alongside of the same, which is included in the within granted land. ) 
Deed, May 9, 1774, s'' Henry Antes, the son, to William Antes, the party hereto, for 
127i acres, part of the land be<]ueathed to him and including the land 
within grauteil. 

HIS ESTATE. 

Having made no will, ujion his death letters of administration were 
granted, April 7, 1800, to his sons, Benjamin INIarkley and John Mark- 
ley, both residents of New Hanover township. The bond given by them 
was for £8800. Their sureties were Michael Ziegler and Mathias Tyson. 
Appraisement of the estate was made March 24, 1800, by Henry Hun- 
sicker and Michael Ziegler; the inventory amounted to £4043 2 3. The 
decedent had a remarkably large variety of apparel, furniture, imple- 
ments, utensils, etc. Amono; the items Avere: A large Bible, 20 other 
books, 22 shirts and velvet breeches. The accounts of the administrators 
were passed February 15, 1803; they showed a net balance of £4205 15 3. 
Among the items for which the administrators took credit were these: 



ABRAHAM :\rARKLEY. 89 

Paid John Hahn, doctor, £() 11 3; Frederick \\\inlaiid, minister, £1 2 6. 
Abraham INIarkley in his lifetime made advances to his heirs, as shown 
by the appraisers' inventory, of the sums: Abiaham Markley, £397 0; 
Mathias Tyson, £362 17 5; Benjamin :\rarkley, £476 9 3; Jacob ^Fark- 
ley, £357 18 0; John Mark ley, £292 19 1; Barl)ara Warthman, £306 16 4; 
Isaac Markley, £119 4 5. The accounts relating to the settlement of 
Abraham Markley's estate were made out 1)y Benjamin Markley. in his 
customary neat and ct)rrect manner. 

The in.scrij)tions on the stones which mark the graves of Abraliam 
and Barbara Markley and their son Daniel, are: 

Hier ' In INIemory Ilier 

ruhen die (xebeine tier Daniel, son of Kuhet der Leiehnam des 

verstorlienen Ahrahaiii and verstorbenen 

Barbara ^Maen-kley Uarlirey Abraham IMaerckley 

welfhe gebobren den 8ten ^lerekley er ward <reb(ihren den i2ten 

tajj; August 1721 und who departed this tag August ]72'.i, und starb 

starl) den 27ten January Life June the K^ den 2t)ten tag Maerz bSOO 

1S08 1764 Aged 1 year Seines alters 76 lahr 7 ino- 

ihres alters 86 Jahr o months & 3 days. nath 8 tag. 

n monath und 19 Tage. " (8 lines of verse.) 



(4 lines of verse.) 



NOTES. 



Extracts from tlie New Providence (Trappe) Lutheran church 
records: 

A" 1745 im Monath Septend). ist Abraham IMerekel niit Anna Barbara Ikesin 
getraut. 

HAITISMS. 
P.iRESTS. CHILDREN. «POXSORS. 

Ml \r 1 1 If T f )). 21 October 1746 rp. t, . 

Abraham Merkel uud tr. Isaac >, .->n nr i i-i- Iherarents 

I, nap. 29 March 1<4/ 

Abraham Merckel fr. t, • • ( b. 11 June 1751 th n 4. 

. T> 1 Beniamm s , .-,o t i--o The Parents 

Anna Barl)ara •' i bap. 28 Jan. l(o2 

Abraham ]\Ierckel Maria Barbara Zehn >raria Piarbara 

fr. Barbara Johr Woehenalt geb. d. 24 Xoveud). 1756 Ileiserin 

COXFIRM.VTIOXS. 

June 1, 1760, was confirmed: Abraham Merckle, Abraham Merckles son in tlie 
Itith year. 

May 19, 1765, f»n Sunday Exaudi was confirmed in Providence; Isaac Mercklin 
des Abraham Mercklins Sohn. 

Also: Elisabetha Mercklin, des Abraham ^len-klin's tochter. 

May 20, 1772, was confirmed: Jacob ]\Iercklin, .Vbraham's son. 

Also: Barbara ^Nfercklin, .Abraham's daughter. 

Sl'OXSOHS. 

Al)raham Merckel u. fr. were sponsors for Al)raham (b. 1 June, liajit. 22 June. 
1755), son of Arn<l Rose it wf. Dorothea Ileiderich. 

Abraham Merkel and wife Anna Barbara were sponsors for Anna Barbaia, dau. 
of Nicolaus Hchwenk and wf. Anna Barbara, b. 12 June, ])apt. 12 Oct., 1755. 

Abraham INIerckel n. s. frau were sponsors for the child of Johannes Ickes u. fr. 
Christina, which wasl)oru .SOtli August, baptized 22 October 1758,and named .\braham. 



90 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

November 27, 1760, Abraham Merckle subscribed 10 shillings towards 
the salary of Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg as pastor of the Lutheran congrega- 
tion at New Providence. — 

Wednesday, December 3, 1777. In the afternoon I had a visit from 
two old meml^ers of the congregation in Providence, Abraham Merkel and 
Henry Heihnan; each brought a piece of meat as a present, out of love; 
we held edifying discourses. — Diaky of Rev. Henry M. Muhlenberg. 

22. PHILIP MARKLEY' (Barbara Dodderer^ George Philip 
Dodderer'). Born August 27, 1725; married, December 16, 1746, Mary 
Johnson; died in Norristown, April 5, 1800. Mary Johnson died Fel)- 
ruary 22, 1815, aged ninety-one years. They are buried at St. John's 
Evangelical Lutheran church. Centre Square, Montgomery county, Penn- 
sylvania. Children: 

119. Jacob ]\farkley*, born August 28, 1747. 

120. Elizabeth Markley^ born December 22, 1749. 

121. Daniel Markley^' born October 3, 1755. 

122. Hannah Markiey^ l)orn October 30, 1759. 

123. John ]\Iarkley\ born December 8, 1764. 

In the census of Perkiomen and Skippack township, June 5, 1756, 
appears: Philip Marcly, cord winder; 3 children under 21; owned 70 acres 
— 30 acres cleared, 7 acres sowed with corn; lield 2 bound servants; 2 
horses, 4 horned cattle. At this time he resided in the house on Skip- 
pack road, one and a half n]iles below Pcnnebaker's niills, marked on 
Nicholas Scull's map of 1759, " Markly." 

In 1755 William Bradford in a publication gave the distance from 
Farmer's Mill, on the Wissahickon, to I'hilip Markley's as 14 miles, 3 
quarters and 70 perches. The distances at the principal points on the 
Skippack road were given as follows: 

Fanner's Mill to Jacob Want's (Jacob \\'entz's) 9 miles, 1 quarter, 24 perches 

Skepack Creek 11 " 1 " 60 

Teeter Welger's(DietneliWelcker's) 12 " " 20 
Philip Markley's 14 " 8 " 70 

Pennebaker'sMill.inParkioniyCreeklG " 3 " ;]0 

General Washington, in a letter from the camp in New Hanover (at 
Fagleysville), written immediately before he moved the army to Penny- 
packer's Mills, announced his purpose to place a detachment as far in 
advance of the main army as Philip Markley's. The traditions oi the 
Markley family are clear that the troops of the American army were en- 
camped on the hillsides of the Markley farm, prior to the battle of Ger- 
man town. 

In the Providence township tax lists of 1781-83, we find the name 
of Philip Markley, miller. For the Effective Supply tax, in 1781, we 
find him taxed £8 3 10 on a valuation of £630; and in 1782, he was 



PHILIP MARKLEY. 91 

taxed £8 lo 2 on a valuation of £G44. In 17S8, for the Federal tax, he 

was rated on a grist mill, 47 acres, 2 horses, 4 horned cattle, G sheep. 

Philip Markley probably resided in this township at this date. 

Philip Markley accjuired a large estate, which he disposed of by will 

dated June 8, 1790. At this time he ri'sidcd in Nori'iton township (in 

that part which is now the boiougli of Norristown), Montgomery county. 

Pie named as executors of his estate Mary Markley, his wife, and Jacob 

Markley, his son. The witnesses to the will were Israel Jacol)s, Jesse 

Jacobs and Phebe Jacobs. His will was probated April 14, 1800. He 

directed that his children should receiye as follows: 

Jacob Markley: The plantation in Hkippack and Perkionien township, which testa- 
tor received from his father, Jacob Markley, deceased, and Jot^eph 
Pawling, containing: 79 acres. Subject to certain payments. 

Daniel Markley: The plantatidu partly in Providence and partly in Skippack and 
Perkiiimen township, bought of Adam Bitting and of William Dewees, 
High Sheriff of Philadelphia county, containing about 100 acres, to- 
gether with grist mill thereon. Suliject to the payment of certain lega- 
cies to other heii-s. 

John Markley: The plantation of 47 acres and tan-yard, whereon testator resided at 
date of making the will. Subject to the payment of certain legacies to 
other heirs. 

Elizabeth ^Markley, wife of John Sieber: £400 lawful money of Pennsylvania, pay- 

al)le in specie. 
Hannah ^larkley, wife of Matthias Kojilin: £400 lawful money of Pennsylvania, 

Iiayal)le in specie. 

Philip Markley and family were of the Lutheran persuasion. He 
was a meniljer of Providence (Trappe) Lutheran church. November 27, 
17()0, we find him a contributor to the support of the pastor, Rev. Mr. 
Muhlenberg; he subscribed 10 shillings. In the church book of that 
congregation are the baptismal and other records of his family. His wife, 
who was of Mennonite parentage, was baptized in the Lutheran Church 
nearly ten 3-ears after their marriage, as the following entry shows: 
"Philip Merckels Frau Maria war 31 Jahr alt und ist getauft d. 24sten 
Octob. 17oG. Zeugen — Jacob Merckel, Philip Merckel, Michael Walter, 
Schulmeister und s. Frau." In the records of the Providence Lutheran 
church are also entered these baptisms and confirmations: 

PARENTS. ClIIMIItKN. SPOXSORS. 

Philij) Merckel Jacob ist 9 Jahr alt Zeuge eine gantz.e Versandimg 

fr. Maria getauft den 24 Xoveml). 17.'>t) 

Elisabeth, sieben .lain- 
" " alt getauft d. 24 N(.vend). 17ri() " 

Daniel ein Jahr alt 
" " getauft den 24 Xovemb. 175(1 Eltern Selber 

Hanna: geb. d. i^O Octob. 

17oOget. (1. 10 Aug. (17G0) Kltern seibsl 

Philipp Merckli Johannes, gebohren 

und fr. Maria d. Sten Dec. 1764, getauft den 23 Jan. 1705 die Eltern selbst 

COXFIRM.\TIONS. 

In the year 1770 was confinned: Jacob Mercklin, Phiiipp's son. 

" also: Elisabeth Arercklin, I'liilipp's daughter. 



92 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

At the meeting of tlie Council of Safet}", held on Saturday, November 
8, 1777; Philip Markley and others were appointed commissioners for 
Philadelphia county, to collect supplies for the American arm\\ 

FAMILY BIBLE RECORD. 

Jacob INIarkley, the original owner of the family Bible, made this 
entry of the birth of his son, Philip Markley: 

A son born on the last Sunday, the 27th day, in the month of August, A. D. 
1725; baptized and named Philip. His godfather and godmotlier were liis grand- 
parents, George Philip Dodderer and Fronica, his wife. 

After the death of Jacol) Markley the Bible passed into the possession 
of Philip Markley, liis son, who made these entries therein: 

Philip Markley, son of the within-named Jacol) Markley, was joined in Holy 
Matrimony to Mary Johnson, December 16th, A. D. 1746, who begat tlie following 
children, to wit: 
1st. A son, named Jacob, was born August 28th, A. D. 1747. 

(Who died Septend)er 26th, bS21, aged 74 years, 4 months. ) 
2nd. A daughter named Elizabeth was born December 22nd, 174^). 

(Died on Sunday, Jany. 14, 1821, aged 71 years and 2:5 days.) 
3rd. A son named Daniel was born October ;5nl, A. D. 1755. 

(Died March 2nd, 1817, aged 63 yrs , 5 mo., 18 days. ) 
4th. A daughter named Hannah was born October 30th, A. D. 1759. 

(Who died December 29th, 1820, aged 61 yrs , 2 mos., 15 days.) 

(She was intermarried with Matthias Koplin, who died January 5, 1813, 
aged 53 yrs.) 
5th. A son named John was born December 8th, 1764. 

(Who died July 28, 18.34, aged 69 years, 7 mouths and 20 day.-: ) 

Another hand wrote the following: 

The above named Philip Markley (born Aug'. 27, 1725), died April oth, 1800, 
aged 74 yrs. 7 mos. 5 days; and his wife Maiy (the above named Mary Johnson) 
died February 22nd (21st?), 1815, aged 91 years. 

NOTES. 

July 24, 1770, Philij) Markley was one of the appraisers of the estate, 
real and })crsonal, of Peter Pennebacker, deceased, late the owner of 
Pennebacker's mills on the Perkiomen. 

November 25, 1769, Fredeiick Isett, of New Providence township, 
gave a mortgage on his property to Philip Markley, of "Skii)pack & Per- 
quiomin township, cordwainer, " for £200 Pennsylvania money. October 
29, 1796, Philip Markley acknowledged payment of the mortgage. 

At the Montgomery County Centennial celebration in 1884 was ex- 
hibited by a descendant the family i;egister of PhiH]i ^larkle}', from 1746 
to 1764, written by himself. 



ISAAC MARK LEY. 93 

24. ISAAC MAKKLEY^ (Bailmrn Dodderei", George IMiilii) 
Dodderer'). Born May 24, 1720; married Sarah ; died, in Hat- 
field township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1812. 

Sarah , wife of Isaac Markley, was horn March 7, 1733; died 

Decemher 7, 1823.. They are buried at Lower Salford Mcnnonite grave- 
yard. Children: 

124. (ieorge Markley ', hai)tized November 24, 1750, aged one year. 

125. Henry Markley*, Iwrn July 17, 1759. 

126. Abraham Markley', born August 1, 1704. 

In tlie census taken June 5, 1756, of Perkiomen and Skippack town- 
ship, is found: Isaac Marely, farmer; 2 children under 21; dwells on 
Jacob ^NFarcly's land; 15 acres sowed with corn; rent 8£ (Pennsylvania 
currency, prol)al)ly); 2 horses, 1 mare, 5 horned cattle. 

October 28, 1765, Isaac Markly, of Lowt-r Salford township, bought 
125 acres and 6 ])er cent, allowance, in Salford township, of Nicholas 
Holderman, Jr., and Elizabeth, his wife, of Charlestown, Chester county. 
He lived on it until, on October 14, 1811, he sold it to his son, Henry 
Marklev. 

The tax list of Lower Salford township, for 1769, shows that Isaac 
Markley was the owner of 125 acres of land, 2 horses, 5 horned cattle, 
and was taxed £11 6 0. In 1783, he was taxed, in the same township, 
on 125 acres, 3 horses, 4 cattle and 8 sheej). 

Isaac Markley left an estate of upwards $4200. His widow, unal)le 

to perform the duties of admini!>tratrix, desired that her sons, Plenry 

Markley and Abraham ^Markley, be appointed administrators, in these 

words: 

.Tune the 12'", A. D. 1812. 

Tliis is to certify that I, Sarah Markley, of Hatfield Township, & County of 
-Montgomery, Widow of Isaac .Markley, Deceased, Beino; week and Sricken in years 
not Capeble to Serve as Adniinistratir for Said Deceaseds Estate. And do Hereby 
Nominate and appoint Henry Markley of the Township of Lower Salford & County 
of Montgomery, and Al)raham Markley of the Townshij) of Upper Salford i*^ County 
aforesaid Being Sons of Said Decease<l. 

Witness Presents! her 

Fred" Katzel [ SARAH S MARKLKY. 

A1)r"' Shipe J mark 

Accordingly, on June 15, 1M2, the sons, Henry Markley, of Lower 
Salford township, and Abraliam Markley, of Uj)])er Salford township, 
were appointed administrators. They gave a bond for $8454.64. The 
household goods was appraised at $153.99, and there was $4073.33 in 
cash, making a total of $4227.32. 

NOTES. 
The record of baptism of George Markley and Abraham ^hlrkley, 
sons of Lsaac and Sarah Markley, is found in the books of Providence 
Lutheran church. 



94 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Isaac Merckele, in Schibbach in Berckjamin Township, advertised 
stray cattle, in Saur's Germantown newspaper, Januar}^ 19, 1759, 

In 1792 Isaac Markley was a constable of Lower Salford township. 

In the MS. record of deaths in the Markley family -is this: 1812. 19 
May. Old Isaac Markley died. 

25. VERONICA MARKLEY' (Barl)ara Dodderer ^ George Philip 
Dodderer'). Born April 1, 1732; married, April 30, 1751, George 
Schwenck; died, in Frederick township, October 2, 1777. George 
Schwenck, born in March, 1728; died February 24, 1803. He was 
buried, beside his wife, on his own farm on the east bank of Society run, 
in Frederick township. Children: 

127. John Schwenck*, born Man^li 5, 1752. 

128. Jacob Schwenck*, born June 7, 1755. 

129. Al)raham Schwenck*, born May 25, 1759. 

130. Daniel Schwenck*, born May 5, 1761. 

131. Elizabeth Schwenck*, born December 31, 1766. 

George Schwenck was a farmer and blacksmith. He was naturalized 
September 24, 1755. As early a 1754, he owned land in Frederick 
township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, Pennsylvania. 
January 2, 1754, he bought of Michael Schwenck and Mary, liis wife, 
one hundred acres in Frederick townshij), located principally on the west 
side of Old Cossihoppen (Old Goshenhoppen) creek; April 4, 1761, he 
conveyed this to Henry Bayer. October 28, 1765, he bought of David 
Hiibner, two hundred acres in Frederick township, bounded by laiids of 
Henry Kraus, John Reymer, Loduick Reimer and Michael Renn and other 
land of George Schwenck; May 2, 1768, he sold one hundred and forty- 
six acres, one hundred and twenty-six jterches of the tract which he had 
bought of David Hibner, of Frederick township, to Lodowick Reimer. 

George Swank, of Philadel})hia county, was naturalized September 
24, 1755. He had taken the Sacrament September 23, 1755. 

In 1769, George Swenk was the assessor for Frederick toAvnshi]>, of 
the Proprietnry Tax. He was taxed £15 18 4 on 200 acres, 3 horses 
and 5 cattle. In 1774 George Swenck, of Frederick township, was rated 
£16 1 4 for Provincial Tax on 200 acres of land, 3 horses and 5 horned 
cattle. In 1776, George Swenk appears in the Frederick township assess-" 
ment as owner f)f 200 acres of land, 3 horses, 5 cows. In 1779 George 
Swenk was collector, for Frederick township, of the Supply tax of the 
year 1779. His tax was £16. 

Letters of administration in the estate of George Schwenck, deceased, 
were granted, March 25, 1803, to Jacob Schwenck and Abraham Schwenck. 
The settlement show-ed a net balance of £3134 11 6|^ for distribution to 
the heirs. The administrators filed their account February 12. 1805. 



RE15ECCA MARKLEY. Mb 

Notices of the liliiig were juit uj) at Iluiirv Krebs's, at Phili}) Boyer, Jr.'s, 
and at Samuel Beyer's, three of the most piibhe places in the neighbor- 
hood of the parti(!S interested. Samuel Pennehacker and Abraham (Jroff 
made the appraisement of his ix'isonal estate, which amounted to 
£1468 8 oj. Among his effects was a sermon book a})praised 7s. 6d, 
The children had received advances as follows: 

John :Markley (husband of Elizalx-th Schwenk) £187 3 6 

Jacob Schwenk 475 5 

John Schwenck 325 7 6 

Daniel Schwenck 443 

Abraham Schwenk 311 

The inscriptions on the gravestones of George Schwenk and wife, 
were, as near as they could be decij)hered, October 3, 1815, as follows: 

Georg yhweufk Hier ruhen .... 

Born 1728 in March verstorbenen 

Died Feb. 24, 180:^, .... Fronica Seliweiik 

Aged alxnit ib yeans. Gebohren den Iten 

April iiii lahr 17:!2. 

Starl) den 2ten ()('tol)er 

Ini lahr 1777 

Ihr Alter 45 lahr. 

NOTES. 

In the Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran church reconl is this: Veronica, 

George Schwenck's wife, died 29th Se[)tember, 1777. 

Georg Swenck and Samuel Bartolet were named in the will of Conrad 
Duddarer, of Frederick township, as executors. (See page 61. 

April 29, 170)9, William Swenk, of Gwynedd township, blacksmith, 
and Mary, his wife, sold to Nicholas Swenk, of Lower Sulford township, 
blacksmith, and George Swenk, of Frederick townshi]), blacksmith, a 
small plantatidn in Gwynedd township. 

In the MS. record of deaths in the Markley family occurs this: 1803. 
25 Fel)ruary, old George Schwenck died. 

See article, entitled The Schwenk Family, in The Perkiomen Region, 
Volume Three, page 51. 

26. REBECCA MARKLEY^ (Barbam Dodderer-, George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born about 1734; married Frederick Lsett (otherwi.se 
Isaac). Children: 

132. Barbara Isett\ born in 1757. 

133. Jacob lsett', born in 1763. 

134. Frederick lsett', born May 23, 17(;7. 

135. Elizabeth lsett', born Angu.st 15, 1769. 

136. Hannah TsetC. 



96 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Friederiek Isaac and Jacob Isaac, brothers, both under sixteen, came 
over in the ship Pennsylvania, whose passengers signed the declaration at 
Philadelphia, September 11, 1732. It is said that their father died on 
the passage, and their mother married here afterwards. 

Frederick Isett was a farmer, and resided in Providence township. 
In the tax lists, which give his name as Frederick Isaac, we trace him as 
follows: 1769, Proprietary tax on 100 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows, tax, £9 13 8; 
1774, Provincial tax, 100 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows, tax, £9 2 8; 1779, 
State Tax, £2 5 0; 1780, Effective Supply tax, on a valuation of £2600, 
£68 5 9; 1781, Effective Supply tax, on a valuation of £400, £5 4 0; 
1783, Federal tax, rated on 83 acres, 2 horses, 2 cattle, 5 sheep. 

July 4, 1801, Frederick Isett, then far advanced in years, made his 
last will and testament, which Avas proven July 23, 1803. 

27. CHRISTINA MARKLEY' (Barbara Dodderer-, George Phih]) 
Dodderer^). Born May 21, 1736; married William Antis; died August 
21, 1805. William Antis, son of Henry and Christina (Dewees) Antes, 
was born November 18, 1731; died March 9, 1810. William and Chris- 
tina Antes are buried at Canandaigua, New York. Children: 

137. John Antis*, died, in Pennsylvania, before 1792. 

138. Elizabeth Antis^, born February 17, 1757. 

139. Christina Antis*, baptized March 14, 1759. 

140. Sarah Antis*, born October 12, 1762. 

141. Mary Antis*, born August 17, 17()8; baptized, by the pastor 

of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, November 5, 1768, 
and named Anna Maria; died in Pennsylvania, before 1792. 

142. William Antis*, born March 15, 1776. 

William Antis lived in Frederick and New Hanover townships up to 
the beginning of 1781, when he went to Northumberland county, where 
he held important positions of public trust. In 1792, he removed to the 
Genesee country, in New York, where he died. 

By will of his father, Henry Antes, dated July 20, 1754, William 
Antis was bequeathed a half-interest in the testator's property in Fred- 
erick townwship, and woodland in Limerick township. The words of the 
will are: 

"I give and Bequeath unto my two Elldest Sons Frederick and 
William all my Plantation . . . in the Township and County above 
s'^ . . . containing 175 or more Acres of Land with all the Buildings 
and Improvements thereon and seventy-six Acres of Woodland out of the 
South East side of a Tract Containing Ninty odd Acres in Limrick Town- 
ship between the Lines of Henry Diringer and Joseph Bitting." This 
was subject to certain payments to the other heirs. 

May 9, 1774, William Antes bought of his brother (John) Henry 
Antes, 127^ acres of land in New Hanovov township, being part of land 



CHRISTINA ^rARKLEY. 97 

bequeathed to the said (John) Henry Antes by his father, Henry Antes, 
by will dated July 20, 1754. (See abstract of title, page 88.) May 31, 
1777, William Antes sold 11(5 acres, 27 perches, part of the foregoing 
tract, to Abraham ^larkley. 

In 1774, William Antes was taxed, in New Hanover township, 
£6 10 8, on 55 acres, 2 horses and 3 cows. In the list of taxables of 
the same township for 1779, he appears as the owner of 2 horses and 4 
cows, and as the occupant of ()0 acres owned by John Betz; and he was 
also taxed, this vear, for the estate of his deceased father, Frederick Antes. 

After William Antis's removal to Northumberland count}^, his name 
appears there in the tax lists. In the Mahoning township assessment for 
1781, he stands taxed £6 10 11, on ^ acre of land, 2 horses and 2 cows; 
also, £0 17 6 for a lot in the new town of Northumberland. In 1781, in 
Bald Eagle township, ^^'illiam and Frederick Antes were assessed, on 300 
acres, a tax of £71 0. In 1782, William Antes, gunsmith, of Mahon- 
ing township, was taxed £3 15 4 on 2 horses and 3 cows. In 1785, his 
State tax, on 1 horse and 2 cows, was £1 7. 

HIS REVOI-ITIOXARY SERVICES. 

William Antis rendered valuable services to the American cause dur- 
ing the Revolutionary war. March 12, 1777, he was appointed a Sub- 
lieutenant for the countv of Philadelphia; October 21, 1777, he was ap- 
pointed a Commissioner on Seciuestrated Estates and Treason; and May 
29, 1778, an Agent to execute the Act of Attainder. At another time he 
was designated to administer the oath of allegiance and abjuration in 
Philadelphia county, and at another he was Commissioner for Tax and 
Levies. As Sub-lieutenant large sums of money passed thiK)Ugh his 
hands, as is shown by the Statement of his Accounts, which was published 
shortly after the peace by the State of Pennsylvania. He received large 
sums for fines collected from the delinquents of the militia, and made 
disbursements for transporting troops, ammunition and stores, for repair- 
ing arms, and forgiving "warning" to the militia to perform service in 
the field. It is stated, by family tradition, that he was an expert 
mechanic, and that in his own blac^ksmith shop, in New Hanover town- 
ship, large (piantities of damaged arms were repaired for the government. 

In the Pennsylvania Aichives, \\)lume VI, pages 453 and 456, are 

printed evidences of William Antis's services in the spring of 1778, viz: 

The Supreme Executive Council sent a letter dated Lancaster, April 28th, 1778, 
to Col. Wui. Antis, requesting the earliest information of the number of arms in and 
belongiufi to the state, as well such as are in the hands of private people as those in 
possession of the Lieutenants of Counties, and in the pul)iic works. They requested 
immediate information of the nund)er of muskets well fitted now in his possession, 
and how many more he can ccimpletely finish hy the 20th of May. 

His reply was: 

NcwhaiHHivci' Tiiwnsliip, May the 1" 1778. 
Sir: 

I have recei veil voni- Letter i>t' the 2S"' i\\ .\]>v\\ last jiast. wlierein I am 



98 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

requested to give immediate information to Council what number of muskets well 
fitted are now in my possession, and how many more I could compleatly finish by 
the 20"^ of May Instant. These are therefore to inform Council that I have twenty- 
five in my possession, and as touching what number I can finish against the twentieth 
of May, I do hereby inform Council that I have none that will be finished against 
that time, as 1 am not at present in a proper situation to follow that Business, neither 
have I heretofore followed that branch of Business for the publick, excepting in the 
way of Cleaning and repairing of Arms, and that about 500 stand of Arms was sent 
to me last fall for that purpose by General Potter, which when cleaned and repaired 
361 of them were sent to the rear of the Army by order of his Excellency Gen' Wash- 
ington, and the remainder was sent to ]\Iilitia Camp by order of Major Cummings, 
and that 161 muskets was sent last fall to Col. Frederick Antes for the purpose afore- 
said, which hath since been taken by order of Col. Wm. Henry to Factory at Allen- 
town, in order to be repaired there. The above is all the Information I Can give at 
present respecting of public arms that have Come within my district. 

I am Sir, with respect, 

Your Humble Servant, 
.[Directed] WILLIAM ANTES. 

To His Excellency Thomas Wharton, Jun'r, 

President of the Executive Council, 
^ Lancaster. 

October 1<S, 1785, an order was made by the State in favor of William 
Antes for one pound spe(ne for cleaning and repairing two Rifle Guns 
damaged on the way from Philadel})liia to Sunbury, being presents from 
the Commonwealth to two Indian Chiefs. 

DEATH AND BURIAL. 

Gray sandstone slabs mark the graves of Colonel Antis and wife, in 
the old cemetery at Canandaigua. They bear these words: 

In memory of In memorv of 

COLONEL WM. ANTIS, CHRISTENA^ consort 

who departed of COL. WM. ANTIS, 

this life who departed 

March 9th 1810 this life 

Aged 79 years. Aug. 21st 1805 

aged 68 vears. 
NOTES. 

In the MS. family record of Henry Antes, his father, the birth and 

baptism of William Antis is entered thus: 

21st November, 1731. William The sponsors 
William DeWees and Christina his wife, 
the child's (irand Parents; named him 
William; born 18th November, 1731. 

William Antis spelled the family name as here printed; this he did, 
more particularly, the later years of his life. His father, and brothers 
and sisters spelled it — Antes. 

Extract from Jacob Markley's Bible family record: 

A daughter born May 27th, A. D. 1736; 

baptized July 18th, and named Christina; 
her sponsors at the font were Benedict 
Mintz and his wife. (Benid Mins u. 
seine Hausfrau. ) 



PHILIP DODDERER. 



99 



In the Falkner Swamp Reformed Church hook is recorded the hirth 
of Carl Antes, son of WilHam Antes, Novemher 23, 1750, and his haptism 
on December 30, following. The sponsors were Carl Keyger and wife. 
As this child's name does not ai)pear in the family record, it was prob- 
ably that of another William Antes. 



28 CATHARINE MARKLEY^ (Barbara Dodderer^ George 
PhiHp Dodderer'). Born May 9, 1738. 

Jacob Markley recorded the birth of this daughter in this simple 
entry in the family Bil»le: "A daughter born May 9, A. D. 1739; was 
named Catharine." 

In the Augustus (Trappe) Lutheran church record of marriages is 
entered: July 3, 1757, Christian Brenneman and Catharina Merkelin, 
daughter of Jacob Merkel. 

In Michael Billmeyer's German taun Zeitung Abraham Marklej'^, 
brother to Catharine Markley, in an advertisement dated December 1, 
1792, desires his sister Catharine, or her heirs, to come forward and claim 
her share of the estate of her father, Jacob Markley. The advertisement 
states that her first husband's name was Martin Conrad, gives the name 
of her second husband as Christian Bonnamnnn, and thai she is reported 
to be again a widow. 

The advertisement is: 



D' 



Bcftantmacbuna. 

ER Unterschriebene luaclit hiermit bekant 

daps seine Sch wester Catharina Eonna- 

msennin, wenn sie noch am Leben ist, sich 1iey 

ihm melden und ihr Erbtheil so ihr von ihres 

Vaters Hinterlassenschaft zukonit, a1)holen kan. 

Ihres ersten INIan^is Name war Martin Conrad, 

! und sie soil jetzt eine Witwe seyn. Solte aber 

j meine gedachte Sch wester nicht mehr am Leben 

'seyn, so ware es niir lieb wenn einige von ihri'n 

' Hinterlassenen ihre Umstteude melden wolten 

i an mich, 

ABRAHAM MERKEL, 

Schippaeh und Berjrjoming Taunsehip, 
Montgomery Cannty, den 1 Decem- 
ber, 17'st2. 



29. PHILIP DODDEPvER' ( Bernbard Dod.lererS George Philip 
.Dodderer'). Born, in Pennsylvania, about 1729; married Johanna Guis- 
bert; died, in Fishing Creek township, Northmnberland (now Columbia) 
county, Pennsylvania, in 1790. Johanna Guisbert, daughter of Andreas and 
Johanna Guisbert, was born in Hanover township, Philadelphia county; 
she survived her husband. Husband and wife are buried in the Dodderer 
burjdng ground, at Jonestown, Columbia county, Pennsylvania. Children: 
LofC. 



100 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 



143. Johanna Dodderer*, born September 26, 1756. 

144. Elizabeth Dodderer*, born July 19, 1758. 

145. Abraham Dodderer*, born October 25, 1760. 

146. Susanna Dodderer*, born October 18, 1763. 

147. Catharine Dodderer*. 

148. Philip Doddeier*. 

149. Anna Dodderer*, born December 7, 1770. 

150. Sarah Dodderer*, born December 4, 1776. 

151. Mary Dodderer*, born in 1778. 

152. Magdalena Dodderer*. 

February 28, 1755, Philip Dodderer bought of Thomas Boude, of the 
city of Philadelphia, bricklayer, and Sarah, his wife, seventy-nine acres 
of land, in Whitpain township, Philadelphia county. January 5, 1759, 
he advertised, in the German newspaper, printed by Christopher Saur at 
German town, his desire to sell his plantation of eighty-two acres, in Whit- 
pain township, near Philip Boehm's place, fifteen miles from Philadelj^hia. 
He lived on this plantation. It had on it two dwellings, a frame barn, 
and a blacksmith shop; fifty acres were cleared and ten acres were 
meadow; it fronted on the Skippack road, a noted highway in the Colo- 
nial and later times; and Avas well adapted for a mechanic or a storekeeper. 

The advertisement in the Germantown newspaper was as follows. 

Philip Dotterer in Wippen Taunsciiip, 15 
Meilen von Philadelphia, nahe bey des Philip 
Boehmen Platz wohnhafft, macht bekant, dasf? 
er seine Plantasche verkaiiffen will. Es sind 82 
Acker Land; darauf sind 2 Wnhnhpeuser, eine 
frtem-scheuer und ein Schmidtschapp. 50 Acker 
sind klar, davon sind 8 Acker eingesaet; es sind 
ohneefehr 10 Acker Wiesen, und kcennen noch 
mehrgeuiacht warden; das Meherste davon kan 
gewsessert werden Der genieldte Platz stoesset 
an der Schipbacher Strasse, und ist bequem vor 
ein Handwercksmann oder Krsenier. Der 
Kauffbrief ist gut. Wer Sinn dazu hat, kan 
sich bey ihm anmelden aiif deni Platz, und 
ferner berichtet werden. 

Who purchased this property we are not advised. 

April 16, 1760, Philip Todderer, of Whitpain township, blacksmith, 
and Janigen, his wife, sold to John INIartin, of Upper Dul)]in, yeoman, 
Philip Wentz, of Worcester, yeoman, Frederick Toll, of Plymouth, yeo- 
man, and Jacob Cobler, of Upper Dublin, cordwainer, — trustees for Boehm's 
Reformed congregation — for five shillings, 61|^ perches, part of the pur- 
chase of 79 acres from Thomas Boude on 28th February, 1755. The sig- 
natures to the deed, as recorded in the Court House at Norristown, Pa., 
were. Philip Dodderer 

Jannegan Dodderer 



PHILIP DODDERER. 101 

Hon. Jones Detwiler, in his History of Bcehm's Church, read at the 
Sesqi-Centennial of that church, September 11, 1890, evidently alludes to 
the foregoing purchase when he says, the congregation "now began to feel 
the need of a school. They, therefore, purchased a piece of ground 
adjoining their property in 1760, and built a school-house thereon." 
(Sesqui-Centennial of Bd'hm's Church, ])age 67.) 

HE MOVES TO NEW JERSEY. 

During the Revolutionary war he was a resident of Newton, Sussex 
count;,, New Jersey. In 1777 he was appointed Sheriff of the county. 
He was also, the same year. Captain of a company of militia in the 
Second regiment of that county. 

HIS SERVICES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

In the work entitled Jerseymen in the Revolutionary ^^'ar, pages 
389 and 390, appear these names: 

Dodders, Philip, Captain, Second Militia regiment, Sussex Co. 

Dudder, Jacob, Private, Sussex Co. Militia. 

Dudderer, Aliram, Private, Sussex Co. Militia. 

In the History of Sussex and A\'arren Counties, New Jersey, the fol- 
lowing information is given: 

At a meeting of the county committee of Safety, held at the court 
house, in Newton, Sussex county, Phili}) DJlidderer was a delegate from 
Newton township. (Page 51.) Thi.'i meeting was held on the 10th and 
11th of August, 1775: 

Philip Dodders was a captain in the Second Regiment State militia 
from Sussex county in the Revolutionary war. (Page 68.) 

An order was drawn by the Treasurer on the Collector of Sussex 
county, March 24, 1784, in which was included £4 12 8 for guard ser- 
vice performed by 23 men, July 1, 1777, commanded by Capt. Philip 
Dodderer, of Col Hankimson's second regiment militia of Sussex Co. 
(Page 75.) 

HE RETURNS TO PENNSYLVANIA. 

September 25, 1784, Philip Dodderer, blacksmith, and Yanaka, his 
Avife, of Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey, conveyed by deed property 
to Lawrence Stright, of Hardwick. (Book of Deeds, pp. 223, et seq. 
Office of Recorder of Deeds of Sussex County. ) 

Between the date just given and 1789, Philip Dodderer returned to 
Pennsylvania, and settled on the frontier in that portion of Northuml)er- 
land county now comprised in Columbia county, in Fishing Creek town- 
ship. It is stated that he first located on the Muncy Manor, say about 
1784 or 1785, and that the date of his coming to Fishing Creek is 1788. 
On this subject the following letters supply information: 

Extract from letter of Captain John M. Buckalew, dated Fishing 
Creek, Pa., May 12, 1898: 



102 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Between 1783 and 1785, Philip Dodder and probably his son, Abraham Dodder, 
settled on Tract No. 1 of the Mnncy Manor, that Mordecai McKinney and John 
Buckalew had been driven from in 1779 by the Indians; at least John Buckalew 
found them in possession on his return in 1785-'86. Abraham Dodder, son of Philip, 
. . . according to what his daughter informed me, moved . . . to the present 
township of Fishing Creek, Columbia county, in 1787. . . . About two years 
afterwards the father, Philip Dodder, with his wife, followed the son. Philip lived 
about two years after moving here, when he died and was buried at Fishing Creek 
P. O. (Jonestown). The old lady lived some time afterwards. They had one 
daughter, married. I have forgotten her husband's name, as they removed to the 
State of New York before I was born. I do not know of any other children of Philip 
Dodder but Abraham and his daughter. 

Extract from letter of Mrs. Rebecca M. Markle, dated Fishing Creek, 

Pa., May 16, 1898: 

Abram Dodder came to Fishing Creek from Muncy in 1786. . . . His father 
came two years later. The father, Philip Dodder, settled near the son. He died in 
1790, and was buried, as also his wife, in the Dodderer cemetery, at Jonestown. His 
was the first death and burial in this section. . . . The gravestones are not 
marked. ... I never heard the name of my great-grandmother. I know they 
had a daughter Lanah. She married a man l)y the name of William Pearison. They 
resided in Muncy. That is all I know of them. 

HIS i;ST.\TE. 

He made no will. Upon his death, the widow having renounced her 
right to administer, Abraham Dodderer was appointed administrator. In 
the records of Northumberland county, at Sunbur}', Pa., in Deed Book I, 
page 147, we find this entry: 

Be it remembered, That on the ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1795, 
letters of administration in due and common form of law were granted to Aliraham 
Dodderer, John Smith and Frederick Derr, of all and singular the goods and chattels, 
rights and credits of Philip Dodderer, deceased (Janogin Dotterin, the widow and 
relict of the said decedent, to whom administration of right belonged, did renounce 
such her right and thereof would not accept), the said Abraham Dodderer, John 
Smith and Frederick Derr having given security for the due administration. Wit- 
nesses, Henry Shoemaker, Jr., and Daniel Henry. 

Eight years later, a petition for an inquest to make partition of the 
real estate of Philip Dodderer, deceased, was made to the Orphans' Court. 
The original ])etition, on file in the Recorder's office of Northumberland 
county, was as follows: 

To the Honorable the Judges of the Orphans' Court of the County of Northumber- 
land, at an Ori)hans' Court holdenatSunbury for thesaid County June 6th, 180;!. 

The petition of Abraham Dudder, eldest son and heir of Philip Dudder, late of 
Fishing Creek Township, in said County, yeoman, deceased, humbly showeth that 
your petitioner's said father died intestate, leaving a widow', to wit, Jane Dudder and 
ten children, to wit, your petitioner, and Hannah the wife of Peter Cannon, Elizabeth 
the wife of John Low, Susan the wife of Henry Shoemaker, Catharine the wife of 
John Smith, Philip, Anna the wife of Matthew McHenry, Sarah the wife of John 
Merlin, Mary the wife of Joseph Coleman, and Magdalina yet unmarried, and the 
said intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee of and in three several parcels o^ 



PUTTJP DOTTERER. 103 

tracts of land, to wit, whereon your petitioner lives situate in Fishing Creek Town- 
ship on the east branch of Fishing; Creek containing about three hundred acres more 
or less with the appurtenances, one other tract situate on the said branch of Fishing 
Creek and adjoining the above mentioned tract containing one hundred and sixty 
acres or thereabouts, and the other tract situate adjoining the two above mentioned 
tracts and containing about two hundred acres with the appurtenances. Your peti- 
tioner therefore humbly prays your honors to award an incjuest to make partition of 
the said premises to and among the children and representatives of the said intestate 
as by the laws of this Conunonwealth is directed, if such partition can be done with- 
out prejudice to or spoiling the whole, but if such partition cannot be made thereof 
as aforesaid then to value and appraise the same and make report of their proceed- 
ings herein according to law. 

And your petitioner will ever i>ray. ABRAHAM DTJDDER. 

Henry Vanderslice, Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Northuniber- 
hmd, returned to the Court a report of the Inquisition held by him, in 
the aforesaid case, whereupon the Court awarded the lands in the said 
Inciuest named t£» Abraham Dudder, the eldest son of the said Philip 
Dndder, deceased, and the Coiu-t ordered Abraham Dudder to enter into 
recognizance for the payment of the several shares and purports of the 
wido^v and representatives as follows: 

The amount of the valuation of six hundred and sixty-five acres of land men- 
tioned in the petition and incjuisition («; six shillings per acre, making £199 10 
Court charges £13 10 
The widow's share 62 75 10 



£124 

Extract from letter of Rev. S. A. Creveling, dated Rohrsburg, Pa., 

August 8, 1898: 

Captain Buckalew says that at the time of Philip Dodderer's death (1790) there 
was no regular preaching in the neighborhood; the Presbyterians coming occasion- 
ally from the West Branch of the Suscjuehanna to hold services in dwellings. The 
Dodderer house was one of the preaching places at that time, or soon after. He 
thinks, as the neighborhood was still almost a wilderness, the burial took place 
witlK)ut the services of a minister. 

Philip Dodderer received from his father, under the will dated 

January 20, 1758, £100. (See page 52. ) 

AXnKKW Gt'ISBERT AND FAMILY. 

Andres Guisbert bought. ]\larch 28, 1727, of Jacob Fisher, 150 acres 
of land in New Hanover township, ])art of the Great Tract of 22,377 
acres. February 18, 174(), he sold the same to Mathes Hollobaugh. 
Upon the death of Andrew Guisbert, "late of Limerick township," letters 
of administration were granted, January 24, 1757, to his widow, Johanna 
Guisbert, the sureties on the bond being Bernd Dodderer and Philip Dod- 
derer, and the witness to the signature Berne Dudderer and John Camp- 
bell. The children of Andrew and Johanna Guisbert were: Guisbert 
Guisbert; Paittin Guisbert, intermarried with Al)raham Paul; Johanna 
Guisl)ert, intermarried with Phili)) Totterer; Catharine Guisbert, Susanna 



104 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Giiisbert, and Hannah Guisbert. The Guisbert family seems to be of 

Holland origin. 

NOTES. 

In the Falkner Swamp Reformed Church record is this: 

1756, September 26, was born, and 1756, November 21, was baptized, Johanna, 
daughter of Philipp Dotterer. Sponsor, Johanna Gisbertin. 

In the Germantown German Reformed Church record are the follow- 
ing entries: 

CHILD. PARENTS. DATES. SPONSORS. 

Elizabeth Dotter Phillip Dotter and Born July 19, 1758. Elizabeth Dotter 
Janika Baptized August 20, 1758 

Abraham Dotterer Philip and Born October 25, 1760 Abraham Paul, and 

Jeneka Dotterer Baptized Nov. 16, 1760 Beeltje, his wife 

Susanna Dotterer Philip and ' Born October 18, 1763 Henry Ba'hr and 
Janeke Dotterer Baptized June 29, 1764 Verena, his wife 

Philip Dodderer was a delegate from Newton to the Sussex County 
Committee of Safety, held in the Court House on the 10th and 
11th of August, 1775. — Benjamin B. Edsall's Centennial Address, at the 
celebration of the Centenary of Sussex County, 1853. 

I find, in looking over the History of Sussex and Warren Counties, 
the name of Philip Dodders, who was a Captain of 2d Regiment, raised 
about 1780, in the Revolutionary War. — Samuel Johnson, Newton, N. J., 
August 25, 1898. 

30. ANNA DODDERERS (Bernhard Dodderer^ George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born, in New Hanover township, Philadelphia (now Mont- 
gomery) county, Pennsylvania; married, at New Goshenhoppen, by Rev. 
George Michael Weiss, pastor of the Reformed church, early in 1747, 
George Nyce; died before 1758. George Nyce, son of John and Mary 
Nice, of Frederick township, was born in 1725; died December 5, 1789. 
They are buried at Bertolet's Burying Ground, in Frederick township. 
Children : 

153. John Nyce*, born February 20, 1750. 

154. Joseph Nyce^ bom April 27, 1752. 

155. Anna Maria Nyce*, born June 6, 1755. 

George Nyce married (second) Elizabeth Fuhrman. Children: 

George Nyce, born February 15, 1760; married (first) May 19, 1785, 
Elizabeth Christman (second), Mary HoUowbush, and (third) Catharine 
Geyer; died December 4, 1838. 

Elizabeth Nyce, born August 16, 1762; married Henry Keely; died 
February 5, 1852. 

Margaret Nyce, born July 19, 1764; married, March 30, 1785, John 
Schlonecker; died September 10, 1842. 

Mary Nyce, born September 14, 1766; married Philip Dotterer (82); 
died July 16, 1850. 



JACOB DODDERER. 105 

Jacob Nyce, born November 30, 1708; married Ally Umstead; died 
December 25, 1845. 

Ann Nyce, born January 9, 1771; married, April 22, 1788, Abraham 
Carpenter (originally Zimmerman); died July 6, 1842. 

Elizabeth (Fuhrman) Nyce died March 6, 1821, aged 88. 

George Nyce succeeded his father upon the Nyce homestead in Fred- 
erick township, but parted with the western portion of the land to his 
brother, Zacharia Nyce. He was a tanner and farmer. In September, 
1758, he was appointed overseer of highways, and INIarch 7, 1768, con- 
stable of Frederick township. In the tax list for 1776, he is assessed on 
260 acres, 3 horses, 6 cows, and 1 negro. 

The personal estate of George Nyce was inventoried, upon his death, 
at £6567 6 2, Pennsylvania money. He owned a number of negroes, 
who were appraised at £110 0. He died intestate. 

REFERENCES. 

The Nyces of Frederick. See The Perkiomen Region, Volume One, pages 189-191. 

See Geo. S. Nyce's MS. Record of the Nyce Family (three volumes), in the 
archives of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust street, Philadelphia. 
Will of Bernhard Dodderer (a), page 52. 

31. JACOB DODDERER^ (Bernhard Dodderer% George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born, in New Hanover township, Philadelphia (now Mont- 
gomery) county, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1733; married, in New 
Jersey, February 17, 1763, Helena (sometimes Lydia) Dildine; died 
February 3, 1813. Helena Dildene was born November 30, 1730; died 
August 25, ISll. Children: 

156. Jacob Dodderer*, born January 4 1, 1765. 

157. Catharine Dodderer*, died, before 1809, at the age of 18. 

158. Anna Dodderer*. 

159. Henry Dodderer*, born January 5, 1771 (?) 

160. Abraham Dodderer*, born February 16, 1771. 

By deed dated April 29, 1763, Jacob Dodderer became owner of 1300 
acres of land in Sussex county, New Jersey. December 15, 1766, Jacob 
Dodderer and wife Lydia sold 301 acres, part of the foregoing purchase, 
to Philip, Peter, John and Samuel Simonson, for £180, Proclamation 
money. ("Proclamation money was for the use of paying for Wolves 
and Painters Heads," etc.) 

At a town meeting held March 8, 1774, Jacob Dodderer was chosen 
one of the surveyors of highways for Hardwick township, Sussex county. 

1779, Jacob Doderer was a freeholder of Hardwick township. 

Hardwick township was in Sussex county until 1820; since that date 
it is in Warren county. 

Jacob Dodderer made his will April 3, 1809. It was probated 
February 22, 1813. 

Samuel Johnson, of the office of the Surrogate of Sussex county. New 



106 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Jersey, under date Newton, N. J., August 25, 1898, writes regarding 

Jacob Dodderer's will: 

It mentions his wife Lydia Dodderer; his daughter Ann Lane; Elizabeth 
Dodderer, daughter of a deceased son, Jacob Dodderer; Abraham Dodderer, a son; a 
deceased son, Henry Dodderer; Peter Dodderer, a son of Henry Dodderer. Abra- 
ham Dodderer and Aaron Hazen were the executors. . . . They lived in Hard- 
wick township. 

In the work, "Jerseymen in the Revolutionary War," pages 389 and 
590, appears this name: 

D udder, Jacob, Private, Sussex County Militia. 

Lydia (sometimes Helena) Dildine was, before her marriage to Jacob 
Dodderer, the wife of Joseph Collins, and had a daughter, Elizabeth 
Collins, who became the wife of William Savacool. Joseph Collins made 
a will April 16, 1761, in which he leaves one-half his estate to his wife; 
the other half to his daughter Elizabeth. 

The Dildine family is of Huguenot origin. 

Jacol) Dodderer had a German Bible, which was sold, after his death, 
to Jacob Savacool. 

Extract from letter of Miss Meckie Dodder, dated Iowa City, la., 

September 14, 1897: 

I wish you could lortk over the old papers my cousin, Mrs. Lanterinan, has. 
She lives in Hackettstown, N.J. . . . The papers belonged to my great-grand- 
father, Jacob Dodderer, and were kept in an old box. said to have been Ijrought 
from the "old country." There are pictures of old houses and windmills on it, 
painted in oil, but very nmch faded. If it came from the old country, and belonged 
on the Dodderer side, it must have belonged to George Philip Dodderer. ... In 
this box he (Jacob Dodderer) always kept his private papers. During the Revolu- 
tionary war, while he was in the service, his family placed their money in this box, 
and buried it. This was when news came that the Tories were marching towards 
their home. 

NOTES. 

A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Nathan Armstrong, by 
William Clinton Armstrong, says (page 146): The Dildine family is of 
Huguenot descent. The immigrant ancestor lived on the Hardwick 
Patent. He left two daughters and a son. One of his daughters married 
a Mr. Dodder. — 

Some genealogists regard the Dildine and Tilden family names as 
originally identical. — 

See will of Bernhard Dodderer, father of Jacob Dodderer, on page 52. 

32. BERNHARD DOTTERER^* (Bemhard Dodderer^ George 
Philip Dodderer'). Born, in New Hanover township, March 31, 1736; 
married, January 6, 1761, Barbara Wartman; died November 12, 1810. 
Barbara Wartman, daughter of Adam and Mary Elizabeth Wartman, 
born July 15, 1741; died August 6, 1823. They are buried in Falkner 
Swamp Reformed churchyard. Children: 



BERNHARD I)0TTERP:R. 107 

161. Henry Dotterer*, born July 24, 1762. 

162. John Dotterer^ born July 12, 1764. 

163. Abraham Dotterer*, born January 8, 1767. 

164. Elizabeth Dotterer^ born .June "iS, 1769. 

165. Bernhard Dotterer*, born September 24, 1771. 

166. Catharine Dotterer*, l)orn December 13, 1773. 

167. Christina l)otterer^ born May 10, 1776. 

168. Adam Dotterer^ born April 21, 1778. 

169. Maria Barbara Dotterer*, born June 29, 1781. 

170. Maria Dotterer*, born January 29, 1784. 

Bernhard Dotterer was a farmer in New Hanover township, on the 
Great (originally named the Skippack) road. His father, Bernhard 
Dodderer, by will (page 53-55) devised to him one-half of his one 
hundred and twenty-four acre plantation, that is to say, sixty-two acres 
of land, and fifty acres of woodland. He acquired other real estate, as is 
shown by the tax lists, viz: 

In 1769, the Proprietary tax of Bernard Dodderow, of Frankford and New 
Hanover township, was £1:5 14 4, on 150 acres of land. 3 horses, 4 horned cattle. In 
1774 the Provincial tax of Barnabas Dotterer, of Frankford and New Hanover town- 
ship, was £13 8, on 150 acres, 3 horses and 4 cows. In 1779, Bernhart Dotterer 
appears in the assessment of New Hanover townshi;), made by George Ditrich 
Bucher, as farmer, and owner of 150 acres, 1 servant, 2 horses, 4 cows, upon which 
the tax was £17 15 4. In 1779, also, Bertiard Dotterer, of Frankfort and New 
Hanover township, was assessed £18 for Effective Supply tax, on which was 
paid five shillinjrs in the Pound, or £4 10 0. In 1779, in ad<lition, he was charged 
£4 10 for State tax. In 1780, a tax for Effective Supply was laid at the rate of 
£2 5 per £100. Bernhart Doderer was taxed £78 15 on a valuation of £3500 0. 
In 1781, Bernhart Dotter, fanner, of New Hanover township, was taxed for Effective 
Supplies, £8 6 6, on a valuation of £653 0. In 1781, in another assessment, he 
appears as owner of 175 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows and 1 negro. In 1782, Bernhard 
Dotterer was taxed, in New Hanover township, for Effective Supply, £3 13 0, on a 
valuation of £582 0. In 1783, his taxable property subject to Federal tax in- 
<'reased to 175 acres, 4 horses, 5 horned cattle, 9 sheep and I negro. The duplicate 
assessment lists from 1784 on are in the court house of Montgomery county, at 
Norristown, and are (1902) accessible. 

HIS CIHRCH ("ONNKCTION. 

Bernhard Dotterer wa.s a memlx-r of Falkncr Swamp Reformed con- 
gregation all bis adult life. At Easter, 1751, then lii'tccn ycar'^ of age, he 
was confirmed, and admitted to the Communion of the Lord's Supi>er. 
His children were baptized by the pastors of this church. -He was elder- 
delegate to the Reformed Ccetus held in Lancaster, in .June, 1787. 

HIS EARLY OPPOSITION TO GREAT RRITAIx's OPPRESSIONS. 

He was devoted to the cause of independence. As early as Ma}' 15, 
1775, a contribution for the poor of Boston was made bj' the citizens of 
Falkner Swamp. Some contributed money; others gave of the products 
of the farm. Amonsr the latter was Bernhard Dotterer. In the original 



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THE DOTTERER FAMILY 



subscription list, which is still in existence, is recorded his donation, 
which was three bushels of wheat: 

Bernhard Dotter .... 3 bushel Waytzen. 

Of arms-bearing age, we do not tind his name among the names of 
delinquents of the New Hanover militia companies of Captain Philip 
Hahn and Captain .John Richards. . 

In a pay roll in the r.ccount book of Captain Benjamin Markley, of 

New Hanover township, we find recorded this payment : 

Oct. 15, 1781, paid to Bernhard Dotrer, 

Black (smith?) £0 3 9 

SETTLEMENT OF HIS ESTATE. 

Bernhard Dotterer having made no will, Abraham Dotterer, his son, 
took out letters of administration upon his estate. The administrator's 
account was passed April 7, 1815, and is filed in the Montgomery county 
court house, at Norristown, Pa. 

BURIAL OF HUSBAND AND WIFE. 

The graves of Bernhard Uotterer and Barbara Wartman, his wife, are 

close to the w'estern side of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, and are 

marked by neatly-engraved marble tombstones, bearing these inscriptions: 

Hier 
ruhen die Gebeine 
BERNHARD DOTTRER. 
Er war gebohren 1736 den 31 
sten Mertz. Er lebte 49 Jahre 
und 10 Monath in der Ehe mit 
Barbara eine geborne Wartman 
hinterliess 8 Kinder 3 S(_ehne und 
5 Tcechter. Er starb den 12ten No- 
vember 1810. Sein alter war 
74 Jahre 5 Monat und 12 Tage. 

Sein Leichen Text 

Jacobi am 1 Capitel vers 12 

Selig ist der Mann, der die 

Anfechtung erduklet, denn 

nachdem er bewahret ist, wird 

er die Krone des Lebens empfangen. 

welche Gott vei-heilten hat denen, 

die ihn lieb haben. 

THE WARTMAN FAMILY. 

Hans Adam Warthman arrived at Philadelphia in the ship Samuel, 
and signed the declaration August 17, 17;>1. Mary Elizabeth Wartman, 
his wife, and Abraham Wartman, his son, under sixteen, came on the 
same vessel. The children of Adam and Maria Elizabeth Wartman were: 

Abraham Wartman, born, in Europe, about 1725. 

Margaret Elizabeth Wartman, born about 1730; married, April 10, 
1749, Michael Boyer. 

Catharine Wartman, born April 26, 1733; married, November 26, 
1751, Michael Fedele. 



Hier 

ruhen in Gott 
die Gel)einer der gewesenen 
BARBARA DOTTERER 
Gattin des Bernhart Dot- 
terer. Sie wurde gebohren 

den 1.5 ten July 1741, 

verehli(;hte sich auf den 6 

ten January 1761 zeugte 

10 Kinder ntemlich 5 8teh- 

ne und 5 Ttechter und starb 

auf den 6ten August 1823, 

na(!hdem sie ihr Alter auf 

82 Jahre und 21 Tage 

gebracht hatte. 



HENRY DOTTERER. lUU 

Christina Wartman, born about 1735; married, December IS, 1753, 
Nicholas Frohlich. 

Magdalena \\'artman, born about 1738; married Christian Sackreiter. 

Mary Barbara Wartman, born July 15, 1741. 

Matthias Wartman, born August 13, 1744; married Catharine Geier. 

John Adam Wartman, born May 16, 1746; married (first) Barbara 
Erhard and (second) Maria Barbara IVIarkley. 

Adam Wartman, the immigrant, died early in 1776. His widow 
w-as buried July 7, 17S7. They were Lutheran. 

NOTES. 
In a number of instances Bernhard Dotterer, our subject, wrote his 
name Berne Dotterer. His father usually wrote his given name Bernd. 

Bernhard Dotterer and wife Barl)ara were sponsors for Elizabeth 
Frohlig, born November 18, 1763, and christened, by the pastor of New 
Hanover Lutheran church, June 11, 1764; daughter of Nicholas Frohlig 
and Christina Wartman, his wife. 

Isaac Dilbeck, of New Hanover township, in his will dated February 
21, 1760, and probated April 15, 1760, named as sole executor "my be- 
loved friend Barnard Dotterer. This will was signed in the presence of 
Philip Hahn and P]lizabt4h Dotterer. 

Adam ^^'arthman in his will dated October 29, 1770, and probated 
March 26, 1776, named as his executors Mary Elizabeth Warthman (his 
wife) and Bernhard Dotorow. He beijueathcd to his daughter Mary 
Barbara, wife of Bernhard Dotorow, £40 lawful money. 

In 1797 and 1798 Bernhart Dotterer was one of the overseers of the 
highways of New Hanover township. 

February 20, 1794, Bernhard Dotterer and wife Barbara were sponsors 
for Bernhard Fuchs, born January 10, 1794, son of Matthias Fuchs (Fox) 
and Catharine Dotterer, his wife, l)aptized by the pastor of New Hanover 
Lutheran church. — 

January 1, 1772, Bombard Dotterer was sjionsor for John George 
Geiger, son of Valentine and Margaretha (ieiger, born Octol)er 8, 1771, 
christened by the pastor of New Hanover Lutheran church. 

33. HENRY DOTTERER' (Bernhard Dodderer', George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born, in New Hanover township. May 28, 1739; confirmed 
at Pfingst (Whitsuntide), 1756, by the pastor of Falkner Swamp Reform- 
ed congregation, a member of the Reformed Church; married, September 
10, 1766, Dorothea Weidner; died October 14, 1798. Dorothea ^\\>idner, 
born i\Lay 29, 1745; proba)»ly the daughter Dorothea of Adam Weidner 



110 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

who was christened by the pastor of the New Hanover Lutheran church, 
May 19, 1766, "aged 19 years"; died November 14, 1821. They are 
buried in the Reformed and Lutheran Union churchyard, at Amityville, 
formerly Newstoreville, Berks county, Pennsylvania. Child: 
171. Jacob Totheroh*, born April 4, 1767. 

Henry Dotterer received by the will of his father (page 52) a legacy 
of One hundred Pounds, lawful money. 

In 1871, Henry Todoro, cordwainer, appears in the Amity township, 
Berks county, assessment as owner of 30 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, taxed 
£1 15 0. In 1784, Henry Todorough, cordwainer, same township, is 
reported owner of 50 acres, 1 horse and 2 cows, and as having 3 persons 
in his famil}'. 

Henry Dotterer made his will September 2, 1798, which was proven 
November 14, 1798. His wife Thorethea Dotterer and his nephew John 
Nise were named as joint executors. The will was executed in the pres- 
ence of Jacob Rhoads and Henry Fisher. He left all his real and personal 
estate to his wife while she remained his widow. After his wife's death it 
was to descend to his son Jacob. If the widow married she was to receive 
only the interest of £300, to be paid to her yearly; after her death the 
£300 was to be divided amongst the tei^tator's grandchildren, share and 
share alike. 

The stones which mark tht graves of Henry and Dorothea Dotterer 
bear these words: 

Hier In 

ruhet der Leib Memory of 

des Verstorbenen DOROTHY DODEREN 

HEN RICH DODERO Who was born the 29'" of May 

Er wurde gebohren im lahr 1745, and departed this Ufe 

1739 den 28'*' May und the 14"> of November 1821 

Trat in den Stand der Ehe Aged 76 Years 6 Months 

den 10"" September 176H mit and 15 days. 

Dorodea eine g -borne Weid- 
nerin in dieser Ehe leben Sie 
82 lahr und zeugten 1 Sohn 
Nachdem starb Er den 14"' 
October 1798 Seines alters 
59 lahr, 4 Monath 17 Tag. 

NOTES. 
In the Falkner Swamp church record is this: 1756, Pfingst, Henrich 

Dotterer was confirmed, m his 17th year. 

May 20, 1781, Henry Dotter and wife Dorothea were sponsors for 
Henry Krebs, born March 4, 1787, son of Adam and Catharine Krebs, 
baptized by the pastor of New Hanover Lutheran church, 

34. ELIZABETH DOTTERER^ (Bernhard Dodderer^ George 
Philip Dodderer^ ). Born, in New Hanover township; baptized, by Rev. 
Peter Henry Dorsius, pastor of Goshenhoppen Reformed church, Septem- 
ber 4, 1742 — sponsors, her mother; confirmed, by the pastor of Falkner 
Swamp Reformed church, at Whit-suntide, 1756, in her 15th year. 



ISAAC DOTTEUER. Ill 

In the will of her fatlier, made January 20, 1758 (page 52), Eliza- 
beth Dotterer is given £100, lawful nione}-, and a woman's saddle. 

August 20, 1758, Elizabeth Dotter was sponsor for Elizabeth Dodderer, 
born July 19, 1758, daughter of Philip and Johanna Dodderer, baptized 
by the pastor of the German Reformed church of Germantown, Pa. 

May 25, 1760, Elizabeth Dotterer (Reformed Church) and Michaid 
Krebs were sponsors for Elizabeth Frag, born April 10, 17G0, daughter of 
Jacob and Christina Frag, baptized by the pastor of New Hanover 
Lutheran church. 



35. ISAAC DOTTERER'' (Bernhard Dodderer% George Philip 
Dodderer^). Born, in New Hanover township, about January 15, 1745. 
He married and had seven daughters. The wife's name we do not know. 
Children: 

172. Anna Dotterer*. 

178. Lydia Dotterer*. 

174. Margaret Dotterer*. 

175. Jemima Dotterer*. 

176. Gidie Dotterer*. 

] 77. Hannah Dotterer*. 
178. Sarah Dotterer*. 

The daughter Margaret married Benjamin Hunt. Child: 

Lydia Hunt, married De#^fe Cochran. Child: 

Lewis Cochran, married Ella Shaw. Child: 

Jane Cochran, married Ripley. 

The daughter Sarah, married William Cassidy. 

One daughter, n)arried Nathan Drake. 

One daughter, married Lewis. 

Benjamin Hunt, Nathan Drake and Lewis, were all of New- 
ton, Sussex county. 

Isaac Dt)tterer was given one-half of his father's real estate and farm- 
ing utensils, horses, and other agri(mltural reijuisites, by the will of the 
latter, dated January 20, 1758, page 52-53. He was also designated sole 
executor, but as the testator's deatli occurred during Isaac's minority, he 
could not act as such. 

Upon reaching his majority, Isaac Dotterer sold the real estate 
devised to him. In a German newspaper entitled "Wahre und Wahr- 
scheinliche Begebenheiten, auf ungestempfelten Papior, well kein ge- 
stempfeltes zu haben ist," printed in Philadelphia, dated Monday, May 
5, 1766, is Isaac Dotterer' s advertisement offering it for sale, which was 
as follows: 



112 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 




Es soil Dienstags den ntechsten 20 May 
auf oeffentlicher Vendvie verkaufft wer- 
den, folgende Stuecker Land in Neu- 
Hanover Taunschip in Philadelphia Caunty, 
das Erstere ist die Hielfte von des verstorljenen 
Bernhard Dotterers Platz ungefehr 62 Acker 
Land. Das Andere liegt ohngefehr eine Meile 
von vorigen, und enthaelt 50 Acker Land. 
Beyde Stuecker haben free Diete. Die Vendue 
soil auf erst beschriebenen Platz gehalten wer- 
den, und verinnthlich Vorniittags um 10 Uhr 
anfangen; alwo gebnehrend aufgewartet und 
billiger Credit soil gegeV)en werden von nnr. 

ISAAC DOTTERER. 



36. ANNA ELIZABETH ZIMMERMAN' (Anna Elizabeth Dod- 
derer^, George Philip Dodderer' ). Born al)out 1736; confirmed hv Rev. 
George INIichael Weiss, j)astor of the Goshenhoppen Reformed charge, 
before 1758; married John Yinidt (Johannes Jnnt). Children: 

179. Michael Yandt*, born about 1756; confirmed, at New Gosh- 

enhoppen Lutheran church in 1772, aged 15|^. 

180. Catharina Ynndt*, born about 1758; confirmed, al New 

(ioshenhoppen Lutheran church in 1772, aged 13^. 

181. Henry Yundt^ born Septeml^er 21, 1759. 

182. (Jeorge Yundt*, born Decend)er 24, 17r)l. 

183. Susamia Yundt% born July 16, 1764. 

184. Maria Yundt\ 

185. Anna E]izal)eth Yundt^ born June 25, 17(J9. 

186. Salome Yundt^ born March 27, 1771. 

John Yundt was a member of the Lutheran Church, and doubtless 
his wife, confirmed a member of the Reformed Church, also connected 
herself with her husband's Church. Some of their children were baptized 
at New Goshenhopi)en Lutheran (church, and others of them at Jordan 
Lutheran church, Lehigh county; and their confirmations were also so 
divided. They attended, part of this time, at least, the church located at 
the present village of Dillingersville, Lehigh county. In 1765 .lohannes 
Jundt subscribed 7.s. ikl. for the su]>port of the pastor of the last named 
congregation; and in 1766 and 1767 his name aj>]>ears in the list of 
Communicants. 

In 1781, .lohn Yund's name appears in the list of taxables of Upper 
Milford township, Northam])ton (now I.iehigh ) county, as owner of 333 
acres of land, 16 acres cleajvd, 5 horses, 4 cows, 7 sheej*. The same year, 
for Effective Supply tax, John Yond's estate in Upper Hanover town- 
ship, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, was valued £150 and 
assessed £3 0. 

December 4, 17S4, .lohn Yundt bought of the estate of Michael 
Zinniit'vman, late of North Carolina, and (Icorge Zimmerman, of Turkey 



ANNA KLlZAliK'Ill Zl MMIOli.M AN. Ua 

hundred, Maryland, 250 acres of land, in Lehigh county, for £616, 
August 16, 17S7, John Vund and Elizabeth, his wife, sold this |»ro])erty 
\o John Urxler f(.r CU'io. 

Correspondence relating to the Younts of N(M-th Carolina: 

Bethany Oki'ii.vns' IIomk, 
WoMKLsDOKK, Pa., l)»'ctMiil)er lltli, 1902. 

Mr. Henry S. Dntterer, Philadelphia, I'a. 

Mv dear Sir: — I am in receipt dl y(fnr recent coninuinication and with the help 
of the statement which yon enclose I may he at)le to help yon to the information 
which you desire, or at least partly so. 

When I was eoUectinjr data about our family some years ago I was in correspon- 
dence with people in many i)arts of our country.' One branch of the Ynndt family 
is in North Carolina. My correspondent there was Dr. D. McD. Yount. (The name 
is spelled differently by different branches of the family.) 

From his statement the first Yundt who settled in North Carolina was John 
Yundt, who came from Lancaster Co., Pa., and he was married in Lancaster Co. to 
Elizal)eth Zinnnerman. Is this the Anna ElizaV)eth Zinnnerman of whom you write? 
I think it is when I compare the list of children which yon sent and the list which 
he gives. 

Children of John Yundt and Elizabeth Zimmerman. — Your list: Michael, Cath- 
erine, Henry, George, Susanna, Maria, Anna Elizabeth, Salome. List of Dr. Yundt: 
Henry, Jacob, John, treorge, Andrew, Molly, Catherine, Mary, Susanna, Elizabeth, 
Sally. This list is evidently not arranged in chronological order. .\11 boys first, 
then all girls. 

The lists do not correspond, yet there are six or seven names in both lists, taking 
Maria to tally either with Mary or Molly in the second list. 

Now I am further informed that the ancestors of this John Yundt came from 
Alsace. This is particularly of interest to me. There is a tradition that my ances- 
tors came from the same place. I have not yet been able to trace any family con- 
nection to this particular John Yundt, but I wonder if this John may not have V)een 
a brother of my ancestor Jacob. What makes this particularly plausible is the fact 
that my ancestor Jacob Yinidt had a nundier of children and among them two sons, 
Abraham and Peter, of whose family history I know nothing, and my correspondent 
in N. C. tells me that when John Yundt came to that state two nephews accom- 
panied him by the names of Al)raliam and Peter. 

Hoping that the above infoimation may l)e of value to you, I am, 

Yours very truly, THUS. M. YUNDT. 

CoNovKK, N. C., Decend)er 25, 1902. 

Mr. Henry S. Dotterer, Killo N. l.'Uh St., Philadelphia, Pa 

Dear Sir:— Having regained my health 1 now proceed to comply with my prom- 
ises. John Yount migrated from Pennsylvania to Lincoln county, N. C., about the 
year 1788. He married Elizabeth Zimmerman befcu-e leavincr Pennsylvania. He 
came to America from Alsace-horraine, (iermany, according to tradition, at the age 
of 9 years, died in 1790, had five sons and Vwi^ daughters. Names of daughters 
Sarah, Elizabeth, Sallie, Mollie and ("atherine. Ahiliie married, l)ut could not (ind 
out to whom; Sallie married Christian Schefier. In ail probability this .Fohn Yount 
was a son of George Yount, who was born in 1719 and died in 1770, had five sous 
and five daughters. Andrew Yount, grandson, born 17tiO an.l died 1841, the father 
of Henry Yount, born in 179S, who was the fathei- of Horace h. Yount, LI>. D., of 
Reading, Pa., to whom 1 refer you for further information. Enclose<l find will of 
John Yount, deceased, the first settler of the Younts in North Carolina, which please 



114 THE D0TTP:RER FAMILY. 

return when yon <iet throujih with it. If you should perchance meet up with Rev. 
Thomas M. Yundt, tell him I have not forgotten my promisa to him. Rev. Alonzo 
Yount has promised to assist me in compiling the work. Would be pleased to hear 
from you. Yours truly, D. McD. YOUNT. 

Extracts from letters of D. McD. Yount, written to Mr. H. S. Dot- 
terer and received by Mrs. Dotterer, after her husl)and's death: 

CoNOVER, N. C, January 20, 1903. 
TJYou expressed a desire to see the lands. Come down and I will take great 
pleasure in showing the farms. There are, and were then, a good many (iermans in 
this county; will give you a few of their names: Frederick Hoke, William Hun- 
sucker, Carpenter, Smith, Wiiieburger, Little, Signian, and Whitenburg, and also 
Fulbright. These are the early settlers of this county, then Lincoln Co., now (by 
division) Catawba Co. 

Co.NOVER, N. C, February 8, 1903. 

TJI sent you liy mail a partial history of the Younts of this country. John 
Yount, my great-grantlfather, married Elizabeth Zimmerman. My grand- 
father, George Yount, married a Pope; my father married Elizabeth Little, and I 
married Eugenia Desdemona Roserman, and I have two daughters married: Anna 
Elizabeth, married Dr. I). M. Moser, and Alice Catherine, married Rev. G. E. Long, 
a Lutheran minister. I have a son, a physician, now doing a good practice in an 
adjoining county, Iredell t-o., N. C. 

COPY OF JOHN YOUNT'S WILL. 

In the name of God. Amen. I John Yount of Lincoln county & State of North 
Carolina, being very sick tho in perfect mind and memory. Blessed be God there- 
fore. Do this twenty-fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety make and publish this my last Will & Te.stam' in manner 
and form following, that is to say Impi'imies I commend my soul to the hands of God 
almighty who gave it me and my Bod)' to the Earth from whence it came to be 
buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter 
named in the hopes of a Joyfull Resurrection through the merits of my blessed 
Saviour Jesus Christ. And for that worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to 
bless nie I dispose of in the following manner (to wit) That all my Just debts be 
first paid. Then I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Elisabeth the House 
that I now live in and my Stove and her Bed and Spinning wheel and the best 
Chest and one Cow the choice of all the Cows and fifty pound hard money. 

Item I give & bequeath unto my three sons Henry Yount George Yount and 
Andrew Yount five hundred & seventy two Acres of Land situate lying and being in 
the County of Lincoln and State of North Carolina ujion the waters of Muls Creek to 
be divided equally among the three (to wit) and the Cross cut saw likewise. 

Item I give and bequeath unto jny beloved son Henry Yount one hundred and 
ninety acres of Land the Tract that he now lives on. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved son George Yount one hundred and 
ninety Acres of land the place that I now live on and the Sf)rrel mare and the young 
dark bay Horse and one Plow and (jears for two Hor,ses and he is to maintain my 
wife Elisabeth as long as she lives. 

Item I give & Vjequeath to my beloved son Andrew Yount one hundred & ninety 
Acres of Land lying on the south side of Mulls Creek and twelve Pounds in Money. 

Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Grand-son John Yount five shillings 
Sterling. 

Item I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Susannah Yount (to wit) one 
Spinning Wheel one Bed and one C-ow. 



MICHAEL ZniMKHMAN. 115 

Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter EHsa])eth Yount (to wit) 
one Spinning Wheel one Bed & one Cow and one Chest. 

Item I give i*c becjnoath unto my beloved daughter Sally Yount (tu wit) one 
Spinning Wheel one Bed one Cow it one Chest. 

Item I give & bequeath unto my beloved on John Yount twelve pounds in 
Money. 

Item I give it beciueath unto my l)eloved Children (to wit) one hundred it fifty 
poundg to Jacob John Molly Catharina Mary Susannah Kii.sil)eth it Sally to be 
equally divided between the eight. 

Item The remainder of my Estate to be equally divided between my wife Elisa- 
beth and all my Children. 

And I do make it constitute it appoint the aforesaid Henry Yount & George 
Yount my beloved Sons to be my whole &. sole Executors of this my last AVill & 
Testament disallowing an<l disannulling and making void all other Will it Wills by 
me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this my last Will it Testament in wit- 
ness whereof I the said John Yount have hereunto set my hand it seal this day & 
year aliove written. 

Ills 

JOHN X YOCNT [i.. s.] 
mark 

Signed sealed and delivered by the Testator as and for his last Will it Testament 
in the presence of us who are present at the Signing Sealing itc. thereof. 

Ephraim Perkins 
Jacob Fulbright 
W.M. Dkal 

Certified to be a true Copy from the Original Jan.'' 10"' 1805. 

By J. McEWEN, D. Ck. 

87. MICHAEL ZBDIERMAN-^ (Anna Elizalieth Dodderer^ George 
Philip Dodderer'). Baptized, by Rev. John Peter Miller, at New Gosh- 
enhoppen Reformed church, May 20, 1733, and given the name Johann 
Michael — s})onsors, Susanna Zimmerman and Michael Rether; married 
. Children: 

187. Michael Zimmerman*. 

188. Catharine Zimmerman*, married Daniel Smith. 

Lieut. P. W. Flores, of Dillingersville, Pa., .July 28, 1902, states 
that Michael Zimmerman, the father of our subject, took uj) by warrant 
several tracts of land, 1734-1739, containing 333 acres, situate on the 
Hosensack, a branch of Perkiomen creek, of which 126 acres lay in what 
is now Montgomery county. On May 6, 1741, a patent was granted for 
the same to Michael Zimmerman and George Zimmerman, his sons. 
Michael Zimmerman, Jr., moved later to the State of North Carolina, 
w^here he died and left a son, Michael Zinmierman, and a daughter, 
Catharine Zimmerman, married to a Daniel Smith. 

Letters of administration upon the estate of Michael Zimmerman, 
late of North Carolina, were granted, January 27, 1702, to Jacob Korr, 
his stepfather, whose surety was Lewis Klotz, Es(|uire, of Nort}inm))ton 
county. In the bond are these words: "Jacob Knorr, of Whitpain town- 
ship, yeoman, who intermarried with Anna Elizabeth Ziinmerman, mother 



116 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

of Michael Zimmerman, late of North Carolina, deceased." The inven- 
tory was as follows: 

An Invantary of the Real Estate of Michael Ziininerinan, Jnnier, Late of North 
Carolina, Deceased, wich is one half part of Three hundred & Thirty three acres of 
Land setuate in Upper Milford township and County of Northamton wich was be- 
queteth to him by Will of his Late father Michael Zimmerman of Upper Milford 
township and County aforesaid Deceased vtz: 

To one Hundred and Sixty Six acars and an half an acars of Land velued at £350 
to an Dept Due by John Yund 8 

Appraised this Sixth Day of January in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred 
and sixty two by us whos names are here under written. John Mock, 

Abr.\ham Mover. 

In the office of the Register of Wills of Northampton conntv. Pa., 
March 28, 1775, is given as the date of settlement of the estate. 

Decemh er 4, 784, Michael Zimmerman, 8rd, Daniel Smith and 
Catharine, his wife, only daughter of Michael Zimmerman, 2d, all of 
Lincoln county. North Carolina, and George Zimmerman, and Catharine, 
his wife, of Turkey hundred, Maryland, conveyed by deed 255 acres, 
part of 333 acres, to John Yund for £616. 

Between 1745 and 1758, Michael Zimmerman was confirmed by Rev. 
George Michael Weiss, pastor of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge. 

38. VERONICA ZIMMERMAN^^ (Anna Elizabeth Dodderer% 
George Phili^^ Dodderer^). Baptized, by Rev. John Henry Goetsch}^, at 
New Goshenhoppen Reformed church. May 9, 1736, and named Fronegg 
(Veronica) — sponsors, Georg Philip Doderer et uxor. 

Between 1745 and 1758, Veronica Zimmerman was confirmed by 
Rev. George Michael Weiss, pastor of Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge. 

October 26, 1759, Verone Zimjiiermannin and Johann Heinrich 
Vetter were sponsors for Johann Heinrich Junt, son of Johannes and 
Anna Elisabetha Junt, born September 21, 1759, and l)aptized by the 
pastor of the Lutheran church located now in Dillingersville, Lehigh 
county, Pa. 

39. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN Anna Elizabeth Dodderer', George 
Philip Dodderer^). Baptized, by Rev. John Henry Goetsch}^ of New 
Goshenhoppen Reformed church, September 24, 1740, and named Georg 
— sponsor, Georg Zimmerman; married Catharine . 

George Zimmerman, on December 4, 1784, resided in Turkey hun- 
dred, Maryland. 

Between 1745 and 1758, George Zimmerman was confirmed by Rev. 
George Michael Weiss, pastor of Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge. 

40. MARY CATHARINE ZIMMERMAN^ (Anna Elizabeth Dod- 
derer^, George Philip Dodderer^). Between 1745 and 1758, confirmed 



SUSANNA KTRR. 117 

by Rev. George Michael ^^^eiss, pastor of Goshenhoppim Reformed Charge. 
Married, by the Rev. George Michael Weiss, before 1758, John Hofl'nian. 

189. Anna Elizabeth Hoffman'', baptized, at Egypt church, Lehigh 

county, November 11. 1758 — sponsors, John Yundt, Anna 
Elizabeth Yundin, and Anna Hoffman, wife of Michael 
Hoffman. 

KEFERENCES. 

Marriage of Mary Catharine Ziiunierinan. See Perkiomen Region. Volume 
Three, page 185. 

42. ISIAGDALENA KURR'' (Anna Elizabeth Dodderer^ George 
Philip Dodderer'). Born July 28, 1743; baptized, by the pastor of the 
Lutheran church, in Upper Milford townsliip, near the present Dillingers- 
ville, Lehigh county. Pa., September 18, 1743 — sponsors, Peter Schilp 
and wife Anna Catharina; married John Roscher. Children: 

190. Jacob Roscher\ 

191. John Roscher*, born December 31, 1767; baptized, by the 

pastor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, Januarv 
24, 1768. 

192. Henry Roscher*, born March 24, 1769; baptized by the pas- 

tor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, April 2, 1769. 

193. Elizabeth Roscher*, born October 27, 1786; baptized, by the 

pastor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, November 
19, 1786 — sponsors, the parents. 
John Roscher, according to a statement upon the tombstone of his 
son, John Roscher, was a schoolmaster. 

43. SUSANNA KURR^^ (Anna Elizabeth Dodderer^ George Philip 
Dodderer'.) Born May 1, 1746 (Church Record says 1747); baptized, 
by the pastor of the Lutheran church in Upper Milford township, near 
the present village of Dillingersville, Lehigh county, Pa., June 21, 1746 
or 1747 — sponsors, David Streib and wife Susanna; married Jacob W^elker; 
died August 24, 1823. Johan Jacob Welcker, son of George and Anna 
Margretlui Welcker, was born March 27, 1746; ba])tizedj by Rev. 
Frederick Casimir Miiller, pastor of New Goslienhopi)en Reformed clunvh, 
April 6, 1746 — sponsors, Benedict Strom and wife Catharine; died July 
17, 1832. Husband and wife are buried at New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
church. Children: 

194. Anna Maria Welker*, born March 12, 1769. 

195. George Welker*, born May 9, 1771; died, unmarried, in 

Upper Hanover township, October 5, 1>>6(). 

196. Jacob Welker*, born Septeml)er 7, 1772. 

197. Susanna Welker*, born October 2, 1775; died, uiimaiiied, 

Octol)er 5, 1860. 



118 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

198. John Welker*, born August 5, 1778; died, unmarried, 

September 25, 1854. 

199. INIargaret Welker*. 

Anna Maria Welker married Henry Grub; died January 2, 1824; 
buried at Leidig's graveyard. Heinrich Grob, son of John and Anna 
Ella (Christman) Grob. 

Jacob Welker married Margareth Schellenberger; buried at Leidy's 
church, Franconia. They had three children. 

, Margaret Welker married Jacob Hoffman, resided in Rochland town- 
ship, Berks county; buried at Long's church, Topton. They >ad no 
children. 

George Welker and Susanna Welker, who died the same day, were 
buried in the same grave. 

NOTES. 

In 1781, for Effective Supply tax, Jacob Welcher, farmer, of Whit- 
pain township, was taxed £2 16 11, on a valuation of £223. 

In 1784, Jacob Welker was assessed, in Upper Hanover township, on 
180 acres of land and dwelling, 4 horses and 5 cows. 

After their removal from Whiti)ain to Upper Hanover township, 
Jacob Welker and family were members of New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
church. 

•47. JACOB DUTROW' (Conrad Duddarer^ George Philip Dod- 

derer\) Married Marillis ; died in Frederick county, Maryland; 

is buried near Liberty town. Children: 

200. Christian Dutrow\ 

201. Conrad -Dutrow*. 

202. John Dutrow*, born October 21, 1769. 

203. David Dutrow*. 

204. Samuel Dutrow*, died, unmarried, near Middletown, INId. 

205. Philip Dutrow^ 

206. Mary Dutrow\ 

207. Susanna Dutrow^ 

208. Elizabeth Dutrow^^ married Haas. 

209. Sarah Dutrow*; married Jones Mellohorn; lived in Fred- 

erick county, Md. 

210. Rebekah Dutrow*; married Burton. 

Jacob Dutrow made his last will and testament November 7, 1804, 
whicli was probated October 27, 1 806. 

HIS WILL. 
I Jacob Dndderar of Frederick County and State of Maryland do make and 
ordain this my last will and testament. It is my will that my wife Marillis shall 
have the use of one third of my whole estate during her life. It is my will that my 



(XIXRAI) DrDDKHAIf. 119 

executors hereinafter mentioned shall on the decease of my wife sell my whole estate 
both real am] personal to the best advantage also collect my del)ts that may be due 
to me and the money arising from such Sale, and Collections to be divided into five 
equal parts and paid to my children as follows to wit: Three fifths of the whole 
amount to be paid to my six sons, Christian, Conrad, John, David, Samuel and 
Philip or to their heirs or assigns in ei|ual proportions, or each of them one sixth 
part of said three fifths; which sums when so paitl to my said sons is to be the estate 
of themselves, their heirs and assigns forever. It is my will that the remaining two 
fifths of the whole amount of my estate be equally divided between my five daugh- 
ters, that is one fifth part of said two fifths of my whole estate to each, the parts 
designed for my daughters ^Mary Beyer and Susamia Collenberger, wife of John 
Collenberger are to be kept in the hands of my executors and the interest thereof 
paid to them, yearly during their lives, but if either or both of my said daughters 
survive their husbands then, and in that case my executors are directed to pay them 
their respective parts of my estate which when received by them is to be the estate 
of themselves their heirs and assigns forever. However, should my said daughters 
Mary and Susannah die before their said husbands, or either of them, the Interest of 
the share of the deceased is to the use of their children during their minority and on 
their coming to lawful age the share of my said daughter or daughters to be equally 
divided between their children. It is intended and ordered the Interest directed to 
be paid by my Executors to my said daughters ^Nlary and Susannah shall l)e paid to 
themselves only. It is my will that the remaining part of the two-fifths of my estate 
be e{jually divided between my daughters Elizabeth, Sarah and Rebekah, that is, one 
fifth part of said two fifths to each which shares or parts when received by them is 
to the estate of themselves their heirs and assigns forever. 

It is my will that parts or shares of my estate herein bequeathed shall be dis- 
charged according to the age of my children respectively beginning with the eldest 
and so on in succession till the whole be paid except in the cases of Mary Beyer and 
Susannah Collenberger. The foregoing distribution of my estate has been arranged 
on mature deli})eration. It is my will ami I order that if any of my children shall 
be so far dissatisfied with it, as to quarrel with the others or presume to effect a 
change thereof by law such (;hild or children shall forfeit all their claim to my estate 
and the share intended for them shall be equally divided among such of my children 
as peacefully submit thereto. It is my will and I order that such property as my 
wife may possess at the time of her decease shall be equally divided between my six 
sons aforesaid. I hereVjy nominate my sons David Duddarer and Samuel Duderer 
executors of this my last will and testament with full power to sell my whole estate 
both real and personal and on receipt of payment for my land they or the longest 
liver of them (if either should die) to make and execute to the purchaser or purchasers 
as full and complete titles as I myself could make or execute in my life time. I 
hereby revoke all former wills and testaments, made by me and declare this present 
instrument to contain and be my last will and testament. 

Witness my hand and seal this 7tli day of November, A. D. 1804. 
Witnesses: " JACOB Dl'TROW [Sk.m.]. 

Sabitt Sollers, Christian Chami)er, 
Christian Waggoner. 

49. COXRAD DUDDERAR' (Conrad DLiddarer^ George Philip 
DoddevL-r'). Born May 26, 1738; married Margaret Pannebecker; died 
May 1, 1831. Margaret Pannebecker, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth 
(Keyser) Pannebecker, of Perkiomen and Skippaek t(»\vnshi]), Piiiladel- 



120 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

phia county, Pennsylvania, born November 8, 1742; died August 14, 
1797. Children: 

211. John Dudderar*, born January 17, 1770. 

212. Samuel Dudderar*, born September 9, 1771. 
^ 213. Conrad Dudderar*, born September 3, 1773. ' 

214. Benjamin Dudderar*, born July 8, 1777. 

215. William Dudderar*, born in 1781. 

216. David Dudderar*, born December 16, 1782. 
• 217. Sarah Dudderar\ 

218. Elizabeth Dudderar*, died unmarried. 

219. Susanna Dudderar*, married Carlile; no children. 

Conrad Dudderar was born in Frederick township, Philadelphia 

county, Pennsylvania. He stated to his grandson, the late Judge George 
W. Dudderar, of Unionville, Frederick county, Maryland, that he came 
to Maryland when twenty years old; that he married against his father's 
wishes; that he borrowed £50 from one of his father's brothers to start on. 
When he first went to Maryland he wrote his name Dutterer. 

He settled in Frederick county, in the vicinity of Unionville. He 
was a tanner, successful in business, and ])ecame wealthy. He was a 
captain in the Revolutionary war, and would not receive any pay for his 
services. When independence was gained, the people of the neigliborhood 
gathered at his house, being the largest in the neighborhood at that time, 
and held a meeting of rejoicing. The house in which this celebration was 
held is still standing and is now owned by Jesse Nicodemus, a great- 
grandson of the Revolutionary owner. Upon an eminence on this farm, 
somewhat away from the road and the house, is the private burying 
ground of the Dudderar family. Stones with the following inscriptions 
mark the graves of Conrad and Margaret Dudderar: 

Sacred In Memory of 

to Margaret 

The Memory Dudderrar 

of Pied Augui^t the 

Conrod Dudderar, Born 14th 1797 Aged 

the 26th of Mav, 1 738, and departed 55 years, 
this life the first of May, 1831 
in the 93'"'' year of his 
=o= Age -^y- 

Conrad Dudderar made a will June 19, 1816, in whicli he named his 

son William as his executor. He owned at ths time a number of tracts 

of land in Frederick and Baltimore counties, Maryland, and in Lincoln 

county. Ken tuck V. 

HIS WILL. 
In the name of God, amen, I Conrad Dudderar of Frederick County, in the State 
of Maryland, make and ordain this my last will and testament, as follows: It is my 
will that my Funeral charges be paid, out of my Estate, by my Executor, herein- 
after named. Item: I bequeath to my son John Dudderar and his heirs, all the 
farming utensils, stock and other personal property, heretofore, put into hi^ 
possession, he having receive<l his share of my real estate by a deeil to that effect. 



rOXRAI) nrODKIiAH. 121 

I bequeath to nij' son Samuel Diulderar, his heirs and assigns forever, all the 
lands which I own in Lincoln County, in the state of Kentucky and which were 
conveyed to nie, l)y Benedict Swope of the same County and State. I also remit to 
him and his heirs, the sum of four hundred dollars, on his note of hand payable to 
me but he is to pay my executor two hundred dollars that being the balance of said 
note. 

I bequeath to my son Benjamin Dudderar his heirs and assigns forever, all that 
tract of land conveyed to me and John Dudderer by Michael Haines Senior, lying in 
Baltimore County. It being i)art of a tract of land, called Upper iMarllwrough, with 
all its improvements and appurtenances: He paying my Executor for the purpose of 
dis(;harging legacies, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in five equal annual 
instalments. 

I bequeath to my son AVilliam Dudderar, his heirs and assigns forever; the plan- 
tation on which 1 now reside, composed of the following tracts or parcels of land, to 
wit, one parcel called the "Mistake rectified," another part of "Pleasant Fields," 
purchased of Thomas Dorsey. Another called part of the Resurvey on Justices 
Delight conveyeil to me by Adam ]\rarckle. Also fifty acres being part of a tract of 
land called "Black Walnut Ridge," and at the North end thereof, to begin at the 
end of the First line of the tract of land called Justices Delight; to be so laid off as to 
contain that quantity; He paying for the purpose of discharging Legacies, hereinafter 
mentioned the sum of two Thousaml five hundred dollars in six e(|ual annual 
payments. 

I bequeath to my son David Dudderar his heirs and assigns forever, the tract of 
land and plantation, on which he resides. It being part of a tract of land, called 
"Pleasant Fields," purchased of William Goodwin, to begin at the end of the third 
line of "Comb's Inheritance," as stated in the deed from (ioodwiu. Also twenty 
five acres, Ihe South end, and Residue of the trail of land called Black Walnut 
Ridge, he paying to my Executfn- the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, for the pur- 
pose of discharging the Legacies, hereinafter mentioned in six equal Annual 
instalments. 

I be(]ueath to my daughter Sarah Funston her heirs and assigns forever ail that 
tract or parcel of land, called the "Apple Orchard," to begin at the end of the sec- 
ond line of a tract of land Browns Delight. 

I bequeath to my daughters Elizabeth and Susannah Dudderar, the sum of four 
hundred dollars each, also the furniture provided for them. 

I bequeath to my son Conrad Dudderar and my daughters, Elizabeth, Susannah 
Dudderar and Sarah Funston the residue of my Personal Estate to be equally divided 
among them, which distribution it is understood is exclusive of their respective leg- 
acies as aforesaid. The Distributive share of my daughter Elizabeth to be paid her 
by my executor as it becomes due or he may retain it in his hands and pay her the 
interest annually, at her option and should she die before such share comes int<i her 
hands, it then is to be the property of my son William and his heirs. As the funds 
out of which these legacies are to be paid cannot come into the hands of the Execu- 
tor, otherwise than is provided herein, It is my will that he is not to be called on by 
the legatees, till they are received, and he is then to pay them their resjiective 
shares in equal proportions. 

I devise to my daughter Elizabeth all my household furniture not otherwise 
disposed of. And to my sons William and David all the farming utensils, stock, 
and other personal property heretofore delivered to them. 

I hereby constitute and appoint my son William Du<lderar sole Executor of this 
my last will and testament, and revoke all former wills and testaments heretofore 
made by !iie, but ratify and confirm this to be and contain my last will and testament. 



122 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

Witness my hand and seal this 19th June, A. D. 1816. 
Witnesses: CONRAD DUDDERAK [Seal]. 

Robert Camming, 
Geo. Ovehiian, 
John Gerhard. 

Be it rememl)ered that I Conrad Dudderar testator t(i the aforegoing last will 
and testament, have added this present as a Codicil thereto, and order that it may 
considered as a part of my last will and testament, so far as it respects the provision 
of my daughter Susanna, to wit: It is my will that the specific devise of four 
hundred dollars, and the proposition of the residue of my personal Estate, as devised 
to my said daughter Suisannah, shall remain in the hands of my executor, who is to 
pay her the interest thereof annually during her life. But should my said Executor 
die, before my said daughter Susannah, my son John Dudderar is hereby authorized 
to take charge of the property hereby devised for her use, and pay her the interest 
thereof annually thereof as above. It is hereby provided that my daughter Susannah 
shall be at full liberty, to leave the property hereby provided for her support as 
above, to any or either of my Children or Grand children she may choose, whether 
she may be married or single, by a will to that effect. 

Witness my hand and seal this 23d June, A. D. 1823. 
AVitnesses: ' CONRAD DUDDERAR [Seal]. 

Robert Cunnning, 
Geo. Ovelman, 
George P. Buckey. 

THE PENNY PACKER FAMIiA'. 

Heinrich Pannebecker, born at Floinboni, on or about Mare?i 21, 
1674, came to Pennsylvania probably from the city of Crefeld, near the 
Rhine, not long before the beginning of the year 1700. He was a sur- 
veyor and owned extensive tracts of land on Skippack creek and vicinity. 
In 1699, he married Eve Umstat, at German town. They had eight chil- 
dren. Peter, the third, was born March 8, 1710; married, in 1783, 
Ehzabeth Keyser; died June 28, 1770. On December 2, 1747, Peter 
Pannebecker bought a mill and fifty-eight and a quarter acres of land, on 
Perkiomen creek, opposite the present town of Schwenksville. He had a 
tract of land containing 515 acres and 130 perches. Here he lived the 
rest of his life, waxed fat and grew in substance from the tolls he gathered 
at the mill until he was known all over Philadelphia county as a wealthy 
man. In 1755, he added a fulling mill to full cloth. At his death, the 
mill and land east of the creek became the property of his son Samuel. 
In September, 1777, the American army encamped on this farm, and 
Washington established his head(|uarters in Samuel Pannebecker's house. 
(See Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker's historical sketch on "The Penny- 
packer Reimion, October 4, 1877,'' also his "Hendrick Pannebecker.") 

Allusion to his daughter Margaret, wife of Conrad Dudderar, is thus 
made in the will of Peter Penebacker, dated September 26, 1760, of Perki- 
omen and Skippack township, proved August 28, 1770: "Item. I Give 
and Bequeath unto my Daughter Margaret now Wife of Conraht Doderer 
the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty pounds to be paid unto her after my 
Decease by my Executors to be taken out of a Ceartin Obligation wherein 



SUSANNA Dl'DDARER. 12;-} 

he is Obligated to me the one of them is One hundred and Ten Pound 
and the other Eighty pound." 

50. CHRISTINA Dl^DDARER' (Conrad Duddarer'^ George Phihp 
Dodderer'). Married (probably) Jacob Pannebecker. 

Jacob Pannenbecker and Christina, his wife, had baptized, August 19, 

1759, by the pastor of Church, their son, Jacob Pannenbecker. 

The sponsors were Anna Susan Dotterer and Conrad Keeler. 

JACOB PANNABECKER. 

Jacoli Pannabecker XVI 163. Frederick township Effective Supply 
tax— 1782=valuation £1000. Tax, 5 10. 

Jacob Pannebecker XVI 549. Frederick township. Federal tax 
1783. 1 grist mill, 1 saw mill, 266 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle, 6 sheep. 

51. CHRISTIAN DUDDARER'' (Conrad Duddarer^ George Philip 
Dodderer'). Was baptized in infancy; confirmed a member of Falkner 
Swamp Reformed church early in 1770; married Barbara Royer, daugh- 
ter of John ]\Iichael and Mary Catharine Royer, of Upper Salford town- 
ship, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. Barbara Ro^'er was horn Sep- 
tember 16, 1742; died February 21, 1811. Children: 

220. Elizal)eth Duddarer*, born September 5, 1767 ; died in infanc}-. 

221. Catharine Duddarer*, born September 11, 1769. 

222. John Duddarer^ l)orn September 30, 1772. 

Christian Duddarer lived in New Hanover township, at the time of 
his death, October 25, 1774. 

On May 13, 1775, the Orphans' Court appointed Conrad Duddarer, 
their grandfather, guardian of John Duddarer and Catharine Duddarer, 
children of Christian Duddarer, late of New Hanover township. 

The widow of Christian Duddarer mai-ried Jost Fryer. They had 
one son and five daughters. 

Elizabeth Freyer, married Michael Hilbert. 

Christina Freyer, born in March, 1777; died in December, 1795. 
Barbara Freyer, married Herny Neese. 

Jacob Freyer, born July 28, 1784; settled in Erie county. Pa. 
Jost Freyer and his wife are buried at Falkner Swamp Reformed 
church. 

NOTE. 
In 1769, Christian Dodderow's name appears in the Proprietary tax 
levy of Frederick township, but no tax was laid on him. 

52. SUSANNA DUDDARER' (Conrad Duddarer^ George Philip 
Dodderer^) Married Conrad Keeler. Children: 

223. Magdalena Keeler'. 

224. Conrad Keeler', born September 10, 1767. 



124 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

53. JOHN DOTTERER^^ (Conrad Duddarer^ George Philip Dod- 
derer'). Born November 26, 1751; baptized, early in 1770, by Rev. 
Nicholas Pomp, pastor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church; married, 
December 21, J 772, Maria Schmid; died February 1, 1835. Maria 
Schmid, born August 24, 1749; died September 23, 1820. No children. 

John Dotterer lived in early life upon a portion of the two-hundred- 
and-fifty acre plantation owned In" his father and grandfather. At the 
sale of the i)roperty by the executors of the estate of Conrad Duddarer, 
John Markley was the purchaser of the whole farm, found to contain two 
hundred and thirty-seven acres. Markley divided it into several portions, 
and John Dotterer bought ninety-eight acres, upon which stood the 
paternal homestead. At this time he was comfortable in circumstances 
and had influence. In course of time he became impoverished, through 
making endorsements. He owned the ninety-eight acres from 1803 to 
1818; then he conveyed sixty-five acres to George Adam Schlonecker; in 
1823 he sold the remaining thirty-three acres. He then moved to the 
vicinity of Sumneytown. His death was caused by heart-disease. While 
reading his Bible, he felt and complained of giddiness and instantly ex- 
pired. His last dwelling place was between the present village of Perkio- 
menville and Sumneytown. It is said he is l)uried at Bertolet's Menno- 
nite meeting-house, but his grave is not marked. 

NOTES. 

In 1780, John Dottrer, of Frederick township, was rated £3 per 

£100 on £700, say £21 0, for Effective Supply tax. In 1774 John 

Dotterer, of Frederick township, was taxed £0 6 8 on one cow. 

In 1779, John Detrow, of Frederick township, was taxed £2 0, on 
which 5 shillings in the £, say 10 shillings, was collected. 

Mr. and Mrs. Milton H. Hildel)randt, of Tylersport, Pa., own a 
Bible containing the records of Johannes Dotterer and Maria Schmitten. 
It was printed in Nuremberg by Johann Andrea in 1765. Mr. James Y, 
Heckler says: "It is the most complete and best preserved Bible to be 
found, of that age." 

54. ELIZABETH DUDDARER^^ (Conrad Duddarer% George Philip 
Dodderer'). Born about 1749; baptized, by Rev. Nicholas Pomp, pastor 
of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, early in the year 1770; married. 

At Cedarville, Chester county. Pa., April 16, 1889, Michael Dotterer 
said: "On a certain occasion Hannes Dotterer and John CEsterlein together 
visited Elizabeth Duddarer, who was married and lived at Weissenberg, 
Lehigh county. I do not remember to whom Elizabeth Duddarer was 
married." 

55. ABRAHAM DOTTERER' (Conrad Duddarer'', George Philip 
Dodderer'). Married Barbara CEsteriein; died in December, 1814. 



MACiDALKXA DOTTERER. 125 

Barbara CEsterlein was buried in the private burying ground, now Berto- 
let's Mennonite meeting house, October 23, 1801, aged thirty-three years, 
three months. Rev. Frederick Lobrecht Herman, Reformed, preached 
her funeral sermon. Chilch-en: 

225. Conrad Dotterer^ born October 23, 1793. 

226. Magdalena Dotterer% born May 10 or May 18, 179G; died, 

unmarried, in December, 1855, aged 59 years, 7 months; 
buried at Bertolet's meeting house; Rev. Moses Gott- 
schall, Mennonite, preached her funeral sermon. Bap- 
tized by the pastor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, 
March 14, 1797 — Testes, Bernhard Doderer and Cath- 
arine Beker. 
Abraham Dotterer lived in Frederick township, on the western por- 
tion of his father's plantation, in the house fronting the Skippack or 
Great road. He was stout in person, and a tanner. 

Abraham Dotterer, aged 40, baptized November 19, 1800. 
Barbara Dotterer, wife of Aliraham Dotterer, baptized November 19, 
1800. 

56. MAGDALENA DOTTERER^ (Conrad Duddarer^ George 
Philip Dodderer'). Married, February 23, 1786, by Rev. Frederick 
Dellicker, Peter Q^sterlein; died in 1847. (John) Peter G^^sterlein, son 
of Jeremiah and Mary Catharine (Weitner) Q^sterlein, was born October 
24, 1763; died June 1, 1832. They and their children are buried at Ber- 
tolet's Mennonite meeting-house. Children: 

227. Elizabeth G^^sterlein*, born 1787; her baptism is recorded at 

Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran church; died unmarried; 
buried, March 25, 1803. 

228. John ffisterlein*, born in 1792; never married; died, Feb- 

ruary 20, 1855. Rev. Moses Gottschall, Mennonite, 
preached his funeral sermon. 
Peter Q^sterlein lived in New Hanover township, Montgomery county, 
Pa. April 1, 1813, he purchased sixteen acres and seventy perches in 
Frederick township. 

Rev. Conrad Miller, Lutheran minister, preached the funeral scjmon 
of Peter Q^sterlein. 



This closes the record of the descendants of George Philip Dodderer, 
to the third generation. 



While printing this family history, the author and compiler, Henry 
S. Dotterer, was taken suddenly ill the last of December, 1902, and died 
January 10, 1903. The remainder of the records of the Dotterer family 
may be found in manuscript in the archives of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, located at Thirteenth and Locust streets, Philadelphia. 



PART II. 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY IN GERMANY. 



Extended investigations Ikivc l.cen carried on in various places in 
Germany to deternune where George Philip Dodderer, the emigrant, came 
from and who his ancestors were. Thus far they have not been entirely 
successful. However, we publish the following information as clues 
which later investigators may follow,. h(.ping that they will ultimately 
lead to the desired result. 



I 



RESEARCHES CONCERNING (JEORGE PHILIP DODDERER. 

The church-books at Bonnigheim, in ^^^urtenlberg, have been search- 
ed for trace of George Philip Dodderer's birth from 16G5 to 1712. These 
books extend back into the sixteenth century. Should later investigators 
find that George Philip Dodderer si)rang from this place, the probability 
is that the pedigree may here be found two or three generations farther 
back than that of our immigrant progenitor. A Schema genealogicuin 
der Nachkommenschaft des Matthiius Doderer von Bonnigheim, prepared 
by the local pastor especially for this work, shows more satisfactory than 
any article the proportions of the Bonnigheim Doderer family: 

Matthiius Doderer, vine-dresser in Bonnigheim, and citizen, and 
Catharina, his wife (also named Anna Catharina), had these children: 

Hans Heinrich, born July 25, 1684. 

Catharina, born May 19, 16<S6. 

Anna Magdalena, born July 18, 1687. 

Matthiius, born November 2, 1689. 

Maria Juliana, born March 26, 1691. 

Christoph, born September 10, 1694. 

Agnes Maria, born February 6, 1697. 

Johan Thomas, born April 22, 1699. 



Matthiius Doderer, of Bonnigheim, in "\^'urtemberg, was married 
October 28, 1710. His children consisted of several daughters and one son, 

Christianus Doderer, born December 29, 1711, 
who settled at Kirchheim, was a tailor, married twice, and had ten chil- 
dren, 1736-1755, most of whom died young; one son grew to manhood, viz: 
Jacob Friederich Dodderer, born in 1755; married, at Kirchheim, 
July 3, 1805; died, childless, March 6, 1841. 



Georg Jacob Dotterer, aged eighty-three years, died at Bubenorbis, 
in W'urtemberg, in January, 1880. His father lived at Hinterbiichelberg, 
near Murrhardt. 



In the family register of the Biichelberg congregation, in W'urtem- 
berg, thirty-four families of the name Doderer occur, yet at the present 
time none of the name are known to live there. One of the baptisms 
there recorded is that of George Michael Doderer, born August 24, 1762, 
at Lutzensiigmuhle, whose parents were Job. Georg Doderer, farmer in 
Biichelberg, and Anna Maria, maiden name not given. The name of 
George Philip Dodderer cannot be found in the record of baptisms or of 



130 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

marriages. The record contains the name Hans Michael Doderer, born 
October 10, 1688, son of Hans Michael Doderer and Anna Maria. 

Franz Paul Batterer, of Freising, book publisher, dealer in books 
generally, book printer, stereotyper, and music- printer, publisher of the 
"Freisinger Tagesblattes" and of the "Settimana," and dealer in paper 
and stationery, under date of May 20, 1880, writes that, so far as he 
knows, his family spring from the neighborhood of Fussen and Southafen, 
in Swabian Bavaria. 



A careful examination of the registers of baptisms and marriages of 
the parish of Murrhardt, in Wurtemberg, and its afhliated congregations, 
covering the period from 1640 to 1740, these names of heads of families 

were found: 

At Murrhardt.— Herr Johan Georg Doderer, burgomaster, 

(amtsburgermeister. ) 

Hans Doderer, baker; wife Barbara. 

Hans Michael Doderer, baker; wife Anna Maria. 

Paulus Doderer, baker and under-doorkeeper; wife Regina. 

Johann Christoph Doderer, baker; wife Ursula. 
At Kasbach.— Caspar Doderer; wife Anna Maria. 

Hans Doderer; wife Eleanore. 

Hans Doderer, jun. ; wife Ursula. 
At Hansen.— Michael Doderer; wife Maria. 
At Weidenhof.— Hans Doderer; wife Barbara. 

Wiihelm Doderer; wife Barbara. 

Hans Doderer, jun. ; wife Eva. 
At Weidenbach.— Jakob Doderer; wife Dorothea. 

Johann Doderer; wife Margaretha. 
At Gockelhof.— Hans Michael Doderer; wife Catharina. 

Michael Doderer, jun. ; wife Catharina. 
At Fornsbach.— Johann Caspar Doderer; wife Anna Maria. 
At Buchelberg.— Johann George Doderer; wife Anna Maria. 
At Waltersberg.— Hans Adam Doderer; born 1743, died 1818; the 
family name is extinct at this place. 



An examination of the church records at Idstein in Wurtemberg, 
resulted in the following genealogy: 

Johann Christoph Doderer, baker, from Murrhard, and his wife Anna 
Ursula Schmidt. Their son: 

Johann Leonhardt Doderer, shoemaker, born at Murrhard, Decem- 
ber 26, 1716; married to Anna Maria Kiesewetter of Idstein on 
September 29, 1746. Their children: 



THE DOTTERER FAMILY IN GERMANY. 131 

1. Johann Philipp Theodor, born March 21, 1749. 

2. Susanna Maria Philippina, born January 24, 1758. 
8. Johann MatthJius, born September 9, 1759. 

Matthiius Doderer, also a shoemaker, married ^hlria Schlosser, of 
Wiesbaden, in 1791. Tlieir children were: 

1. Heinrich Christian, born June 30, 1792. 

2. Carl Philipp, born February 16, 1796. 

3. Phihpp Martin, born September 19, 1798. 

4. Friedrich Ludwig Christian, born April 1, 1802. 
Carl Philipp Doderer had the following children: 

1. Ludwig, born October 17, 1824, at Eltville. 

2. Friedrich, born in London. 

3. Sophie. 

Ludwig Doderer, of Eltville, former i)rincipal of a public school in 
Wiesbaden, kindly assisted in collecting the above information. 
Ludwig Doderer, of Wiesbaden, died May 12, 1903. 



From Heilbronn we have obtained the following information: , 

Carl Doderer. His children : 

1. Christoph. ' 

2. P^va. 

3. Gottliel), (lied l.S4(;. at Heilbronn. 

4. Carl. 

Children of Gottlieb Doderer: ! 

1. Ludwig, printer, died 1S4(). ' 

2. Frederike, died 1876. 

3. Carl, councilman at Heilbronn, died 1893. i 

4. Ferdinand, carpenter, died 1889. 1 

5. Wilhelm, created a nobleman by the Austrian government, j 
royal Councillor at Vienna, married Marie von Greisingen. 

Children of Carl Doderer: 

1. Wilhelm, born 1859, judge at Neckarsulm. 

2. Carl, l)orn 1864, merchant at Augsburg. 
Cliildren of Ferdinanvl Doderer: 

1. Carl Doderer, died 1888, as Postal Clerk at Heilbronn. 
Children of Wilhelm Doderer: 

1. Willi von Doderer, architect in Vienna, born 185L ] 

2. Richard von Doderer, student of jurisprudence, born 1872, 



Karl :\Iartin Innnanuel Doderer, of Stuttgart, held for many years 
the office of Kanzleirath to the King. His office was that of chancery or 
government councillor in the department of Buildings and Grounds. 

See account of his ancestrv in M1ie Perkiomen Region, Vol. Ill, ]\ 182. 



132 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

In Kinzheiin, Alsace, the Dotterer family has had an abiding place 
for more than two centuries. In the records of the Town Hall, the oldest 
entry of the family is the following: 

1681, January 7. Martinus Dotter von Sand. 
Maria Barbara Knellin von Intlingen. 
See account of the visit of Henry S. Dotterer to Alphonse Dotterer, 
merchant, at St. Croix-aux-Mines, Alsace. 

The Perkiomen Region, Vol. Ill, page 99. 



PART III. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 

OF 
HENRY S. DOTTERER. 



IN M E MORI AM . 



HENRY S. DOTTERER, 



FELL ASLEEP ON THE EVENING OF 



JANUARY 10, 1903. 



'7 have kept the faith." 



''Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall 



see God. 




RESU RCA M 



TO MY HUSBAND. 



We trod the pathway of life together like children, 
hand in hand, not lingering in stony places but wandering 
in beautiful valleys, plucking flowers, which proved to us 
the love and goodness of God. We often sought the 
mountains, which revealed to us His greatness and majesty. 



A loving tribute from 

his wife, 

REBECCA S. DOTTERER. 



LINE OF DESCENT OF HENRY S. DOTTERER. 



George Philip Dodderer^ 
Born in Europe. 
Died November 6, 1741. 

Michael Dotterer^, 
"^ Born in Europe May, 1698. 
Died April, 1786. 



married 



Veronica 



married 



Michael Dotterer% 



married 



Born in Europe. 

Died October 20, 1752. 

Anna Maria Fischer 
Born in Freinsheim, in 
the Palatinate of the 
Rhine. 
Died January, 1781. 

Catharine Reiff, 



Born October 31, 1735. (October 12, 1766) Born February 11, 1745. 



Died March 12, 1811. 

Conrad Dotterer*, married 

Born April 9, 1769. 
Died September 29, 1827. 

Philip Dotterer*, married 

Born August 4, 1809. (February 2, 1840) 
Died July 21, 1884. 



Henry S. Dotterer*, 

Born February 16, 1841. 
Died January 10, 1903. 

Ralph Shelly Dotterer", 
Born May 26, 1878. 
Died August 17, 1878. 



married 
(June 20, 1876) 



Died November 16, 1820. 

Catharine Yunkin, 
Born August 25, 1777. 
Died September 16, 1840. 

Priscilla Sassaman, 
Born January 6, 1819. 
Died February 17, 1880. 

Rebecca S. Shelly, 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 

Henry Sassaman Dotterer, son of Philip and Priscilla (Sassaman) 
Dotterer, was born in Frederick township, Montgomery county, Pa., on 
the 16th of February, 1841. He first saw tlic hght in the stone house 
built by his grandfather, Conrad Dotterer*, in 1813, on the road forming 
the dividing line between New Hanover and Frederick townships, one 
mile and a quarter northeast of Kreb's tavern (a hostlery of the olden 
time, famous far and wide) and about three miles east of the ancient 
village of Sumneytown 

From the weather record kept by Abraham Bertolet the following is 
taken: Hard frost; clear, with clouds; milder; sunset-glow. 

The parents of Mr. Dotterer, being of the Reformed faith, had the 
child baptized on the 16th day of May, 1841, by Rev. Henry S. Bassler, 
pastor of Keelor's German Reformed congregation, which church, occupied 
jointly with the Lutherans, is located in Frederick township, Montgomery 
county. Pa. The sponsors were Henry Gilbert and wife. 

The people of Frederick townshi}) were descendants generally of 
German immigrants who came to America before the Revolution, and the 
language spoken there was universally the Pennsylvania German. 

During the winter of 1848-9 Henry attended the school of George 
Strohl in KolV)'s and Freyer's schoolhouse; it was a log house, one story 
high. In 1849 Mr. Strohl taught at New Hanover Square; during the 
winter of 1849-50 .John W. Arms was the teacher at Pennebacker's school 
at New Hanover, later Mr. Gresh and Samuel N. Faust taught here. 
Henry was a pupil in each of these instances as well as at the terms of 
summer school — one taught by Lettie Vandegrift, of Philadelphia — when 
such Avere held. 

On the 22nd of March, 1852, Philip Dotterer and family moved to 
the borough of Norristown, in the same county. His ol»ject in df)ing so 
was to give his children an opportunity to learn to speak the English 
language and to enable them to enjoy the advantages of the superior 
public schools. 

He remained in Norristown three years. During this period Henry 
went to the Oak street public school and in 1853 he attended for a short 
while. Rev. Samuel Aaron's Treemount Seminary, a noted school for 
boys. Henry also worked for a short time at Schall's nail mill and in 
1854_5 he was engaged during the summer months in the gnx-ery store of 
Samuel Benner, and the large general store of Joseph SlinglufY. In the 
fall of 1855, a school of higher grade was opened in Frederick township 
under the auspices of the principal men of the Reformed and Lutheran 
congregations, as well as other friends of education in the vicinity. The 
school was named "Philomath'ic Institute," but later became known as 
"Frederick Institute," and was held in the Sunday-school building on 



140 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 

the hill on the west side of Society Run near Keelcr's Church. Cyrus F. 
Guldin was the principal. Henry attended this institution, which was 
open to boys and girls. During the Christmas season an exhibition by 
the pupils, the first of the kind in the neighborhood, was given. Two 
literar}' societies were organized: one by the pupils of the school exclu- 
sively, the other by the gentlemen of the neighborhood, to which the 
older boy students were also admitted. Debates, dialogues and recitations 
were the principal exercises at the meetings of the societies. At the 
public exhibitions, just alluded to, a number of original orations in 
English and (Terman were given by the more advanced young men. The 
winter of 1855-56 was remarkable for a heavy fall of snow. In the Spring 
of 1856, Philip Dotterer, Henry's father, sold his place in Frederick 
township and returned to Norristown. On the lOth of April, 1856, 
Henry S. Dotterer began a three-3^ears' apprenticeship in the printing 
business in the office of Dr. E. L. Acker, proprietor of the "Norristown 
Register," a weekly Democratic newspaper. 

The lad had long before chosen this trade, although his parents were 
unfavorable to the selection, desiring him to learn the carpenter's or 
cabinetmaker's business. From September, 1859, to Ma}^, 1860, , he 
attended the boarding and day school of John W. Loch at Norristown. 

This school was named "DeKalb Institute." He took up a large 
line of studies and his three or four years' experience in the printing office 
seems to have been an advantage rather than otherwise, to his education, 
for in the written examinations held by Prof. Loch, Henry stood first in 
averages in the school. 

Dr. John W. Loch states in reference to this Institute, also known as 
Treemount Seminary: "It is with no small degree of satisfaction and 
pleabure that I am able to refer to so many pupils of Treemount, who in 
subsequent years became distinguished in the walks of life and in the 
history of our country. I am happy to name among them, Genera] 
John F. Hartranft, afterwards Governor of Pennsylvania; General John 
Brooke; Admiral Frederick V. McNair; John Fornance, Engineer U. S. 
Navy, and Captam James Fornance, 13th Infantry, LI. S. Army." 

On Saturday afternoon, April 7, 1860, he, with a sniall number of 
others, was confirmed a member of the German Reformed Church of the 
Ascension, of Norristown, Rev. P. S. Davis, D. D., being pastor at that 
time. The following day, Sunday, he was admitted to the communion. 

In 1857, upon the beginning of a new German newspaper at Penns- 
burg by Albrecht Kneule, Henry S. Dotterer became its Norristown 
correspondent. This engagement continued for two or three years. The 
correspondence was in English and translated by Mr. Kneule into German. 
He was engaged in the printing business in 1860 and part of 1861. 

In September, 1861, just after having agreed to take a position in 
the office of the Pottsville "Democratic Standard," conducted by Henry 



HKNKV S. DO'ITKKKK. 141 

L. Acker, he was invited by the Directors of puhHc scliools of Norristown 
to assume the principalship of Sandy Hill Se(!ondary Schot)l, which he 
did for the remainder of that year. After this Mr. Dotterer decided to go 
with ^Iv. Charles Rurnhani, manufacturer of druggists' tinware, in Phila- 
delphia, as a clerk, and after a few years he was engaged as cashier anil 
bookkeeper with ^^'anamaker tt Brown, clothiers, at 6th and Market 
streets, Philadelpliia. This position he soon resigned to take, through 
the good office of his friend, Mr. John W. Torrey, the place of cashier 
and bookkeeper with Peter ^^'right and Sons, shippers and importers, 
Philadelphia. This situation, as well as the one of confidential man of 
the firm, he held uninterruptedly for eighteen years, until December 
31, 1882. 

He was married, on .lune 20, 187(5, to Pebecca S. Shelly, 
daughter of Dr. A. F. and Elizabeth S. Shelly, in the historic old 
Race street Reformed church, Philadelphia, by Rev. David VanHorne, 
1). D. They spent three months in Europe on a wedding trijj. 

In 1883-84 he was General Manager of "The Em])ire Company Lim- 
ited," of New York City. 

In 1890-1891, he with his wife, spent nearly a year in Anthon}', 
Kansas, where he was looking after investments of Eastern capitalists, 
when he was recalled to Philadelphia by Mr. William Redwood Wright, 
Treasurer of the city of Philadeli)hia, to act as his assistant. in 1893, 
having a great desire to see the World's Fair Exposition and expecting to 
take up a line of congenial work, he with INIrs. Dotterer went to Chicago. 
He was appointed assistant to Mr. Gilbert Shaw, the city's banker, in the 
office of the City Treasurer, holding this place until recalled again to 
Philadelphia by Smith, Kline and French Co. to act as their cr.shier and 
accountant. In 1895-1896, accompanied by Mrs. Dotterer, he made a 
trip to Europe, consummating a desire which he had long cherished, to 
make researches in the archives and libraries, particularly of Holland, 
Germany and Switzerland, relative to the early innnigration from these 
countries to America. He also wished to investigate the early history of 
the German Reformed Church as relating to Pennsylvania. They return- 
ed to America August 22, 1896, on the "St. Louis," which carried the 
famous Chinaman, Li Hung Chang, and his suite. 

Mr. Dotterer was auditor of the National Export Exposition, Mi. 
Sydney L. Wright, Treasurer, held in Philadelphia in 1899, and for three 
years held the position of Assistant Treasurer of the Philadelphia Com- 
mercial Museums, which ])lace he resigned, December 31, 1902, to accept 
the position of Private Secretary to Governor-elect Samuel W. Pemiy- 
packer. He was taken ill in December and his career was suddenly cut 
of! after'a short illness. He passed away on January 10, 1903. ^ His un- 
expected death was a great shock to his many friends, both at home and 
abroad. They gave expression of their appreciation of liis character and 



142 THE DOTTERER FAMIT.Y. 

services in several hundred letters, cards of sympathy and condolence, 
sent to his bereaved wif*i and relatives. Many of these letters came from 
persons of prominence in the church, in l)usiness circles, and social life. 

Mr. Dotterer had literary tastes and pursued researches in genealogy, 
local and church history as a positive pleasure and delight. In addition 
to his published works, "The Perkiomen Region, Past and Present," 
Vols. I, II, III; "Historical Notes Relating to tlie Pennsylvania Reformed 
Church," he wrote a number of sketches, among them being, Falkner 
Swamp; Life of Henry Antes; Life of John Philip Boehni; Jacob Reiff of 
Salford; Skippack Reformed Church; Whitemarsh Reformed Congrega- 
tion in the Holland Arcliives; Persons and Places in Reformed History; 
The Church at Market Square, and The Markley Freundschaft. 

In the Centennial Celebration of Montgomery County, held in Sep- 
tember, 1884, at Norristown, Pa., he acted as a membei of the Committee 
on Publication of the Official Record and of the Antiquarian Corqmittee. 
Moreover, he classified a list of Exhibits with an alphai)etically arranged 
list of exhibitors. He also wrote the account of Frederick Township in 
the "History of Montgomery County," published in 1884. 

He was fond of travel, and with his wife made a number of trips to 
Canada, to the cities, mountains and lakes of New England, as well as to 
our own and Western and Southern States, and twice explored the won- 
ders of Mammoth Cave. 

He was a meml)er of "The Historical Society ^of Pennsylvania," 
"The Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution," "The Pennsylvania-German 
Society," "The Montgomery County Historical Society," and the "Pres- 
byterian Historical Society." 

Mr. Dotterer was for many years an Elder in the First Reformed 
Church of Philadelphia and Secretary of the Board of Corporation for 
fifteen years. He was one of the leading spirits in the celebration of the 
Sesqui-Centennial of the organization of the Coetus of the Reformed 
Church, held in the First Church in September, 1896, and also of the 
interesting Historical Exhibit, held in the Witherspoon P)uilding duiing 
the meeting of the General Synod of the Presbyterian C'hnrch in U)()l. 
When this exhibit was repeated in the fall of the year during the sessions 
of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church, in Heidelt)erg Reformed 
Church, Philadelphia, he gave it his enthusiastic support and helped to 
make it a brilliant success. He recently contributed a series of historical 
"notes" in the little church paper, "The Gleaner," and his last active 
work in the church was in helping to arrange for the celebration of the 
175th anniversary of the founding of the church, held on October 26, 
1902. He put his usual enthusiasm into the exercises of the day and no 
one was happier in their marked success than he. 



I 



CROSSING THE BAR, 



Sunset and evening star, 

And one clear call for me! 
And may there be no moaning of the bar, 

When I put out to sea. 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 

Too full for sound and foam, 
When that which drew from out the boundless deep 

Turns again home. 

Twilight and evening bell, 

And after that the dark; 
And may there be no sadness of farewell, 

When I embark: 

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place 

The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 

When I have crost the bar. 

— Tennyson. 



THE FUNERAL SERVICES AND SERMON 



FUNHRAl. SERVICES. 

The funeral services over tlie remains of Henry 8. Dotterer, were 
held on Wednesda}' morning, January 14, 1903, at his residence, No. 
1605 N. 13th street, Philadelphia. A very large concourse of friends, 
many of whom had been associated with him in business and social life, 
in his work in the church and in his literar}' puisuits, gathered to pay a 
last tribute of respect. 

The funeral sermon was delivered by his pastor, Rev. E. F. Wiest. 
Rev. S. A. Ziegenfuss, D. D., pastor of St. Michael's lAitheran Church, 
Germantown, read selections of Scripture. Rev. James Crawford, D. D., 
pastor of Christ Reformed Church, offered prayer. 

Beautiful floral tributes spoke eloquently of the regard in which he 
was held, and as in life he was very fond of flowers, it seemed fitting that 
they should breathe their fragrance about him in his last quiet sleep. 

The honorary pall-bearers were: — Governor-elect Samuel W. Penny- 
packer, Joseph Fornance, Esq., Mr. John M.Hartman, John Woolf Jordan, 
LL. D., George W. Spiese, Esq., Mr. Benjamin F. Mechling, Mr. Sydney 
L. Wright, Mr. Mahlon N. Kline, Alfred Percival Smith, Esq., Mr. 
Henry M. Weaver. 

Among those present at the services were: — Mr. Frank L. Neall, 
Mr. Andrew M. Bye, Mr. Edgar (\. Thomas, Mr. Henry B. Benners, 
Mr. Saml. T. Roberts, Jr., connected with Peter A\^right and Sons ; City 
Treasurer, J. Hampton Moore, Former City Treasurer, William Redwood 
Wright: Dr. William P. Wilson, Director of The Philadelphia Museums; 
Mr. \V. W. Foulkrod, Mr. C. A. Green, Mr. John J. Macfarlane; Mr. 
Rudolph Koradi, Swiss Consul to Philadelphia; Rev. C. J. Musser, D. 
D., Editor of Reformed Church Messenger, Rev. Joseph W. Santee, D. D. , 
Rev. J. H. Sechler, D. D., Rev. Prof. William J. Hinke, Rev. C. H. 
Coon, i) D., Rev. George A. Scheer, D. D. ; J. 0. Knipe, M. D., Wil- 
loughby H. Reed, Ph. D. M. D., Irwin P. Knipe, P^sq., J. A. Strassburger,, 
Esq.; Bisho]) N. B. Grubb, Rev. A. F. Dotterer, Prof. J. M. Anders, Ph. D. 
M. D., Prof. ^\•. C. Hollopeter, M. D., Eugene I. Santee, M. D., ^fr. J. 
Henry Workman, Mr. James Lane Pennypacker, Ciiarles H. Mathews 
Esq., Mr. Edward 0. Acker, Mr. Edwin C. Jellett, All)ert Cook 
Myers, B. L., Mr. Benjamin Bertolet and Mr. Arthur T. Abernethy. 

The interment in Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadelphia, was private. 



ISAIAH S7: 1-2. 

llw rkihteous perUheth, aii<l no )ii(iu lai/dli it to /lenrt: nnd 
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous 
is taken away from the evil to come. 

He shall enter into peace : they shall rest in t/ieir beds, each 
one walking in his uprightneM. 



\ 

I 



SERMON BY RHV. H. F. WIHST. 

It is common for us to speak of the death of a good man when yet in 
the prime of life as untimely. Are we justified in saying this of any man? 
If we say this, do we not really challenge the wisdom, the omniscience, and 
the omnipotence of God? Does God make hlundcrs? Does God permit 
men through ignorance, or carelessness, or innocence, to shorten the 
period of their usefulness in the world ? We believe in God. We believe 
that He made all things animate and inanimate; that He made all things 
good, and that He made whatever He made to subserve His own purpose. 
Having faith in God, we believe that He gives being to every man in 
order that every man may contribute something toward the realization of 
His will on earth. This will of God is ultimately the establishment of 
God's reign of righteousness, peace, and joy in the H0I3' Spirit through- 
out the whole earth. All that God has made He made to praise Him. 
Even the wrath of man He maketh to praise His holy name. These 
things being admitted, we cannot believe that the death of any man is 
untimel}'. So to believe, would be to assert that it lies in the power of 
men or of circumstances to frustrate the will of God. Then God would 
be compelled to abdicate the throne of the absolute sovereignty of the 
universe. He would not then be a ruler, but a subject; not independent, 
but dependent. The only rational solution of this problem, is that found 
in the words of the prophet as found in our text. 

In the preceding verses the prophet is speaking of the utter demorali- 
zation of his own people Israel. The high and the low arc all sunken in 
depravity. Such is the general moral dccliiu' that "the righteous perish- 
eth, and no man layeth it to heart." The ])resence of a righteous man is 
a constant rebuke to the unrighteous man. Then the j^rophet makes it 
plain why the righteous man is taken away aeemingly, before his time. 
"The righteous is taken away from the evil to come." Taking this view 
of the matter, we are to believe that the death of a good man while yet in 
the vigor of a robust manhood is a special mark of God's favor to him. 
In the dark hour of bereavement it is diflficult to see the hand of a benefi- 
cent Providence. We are then dangerously near challenging the goodness 
and love of God. But after time has wrought its work of binding up and 
healing, every devout child of God can take the prophet's view and say 
with Paul. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh 
for tis a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory : while we look. 



150 THE DOTTERER FAMILY. 

not at tlie things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen : for 
the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are 
eternal." "All things work together for good to them that love God." 
Then Ave begin to see that there is no untimely dying; we dwell not so 
much upon what we have lost as upon what the dead have gained; we 
more fully understand the concluding words of the prophet: "He entcreth 
into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his 
uprightness." 

There is no doubt that human nature is much the same to-day in 
this land in which we live as it was in Palestine in the time of Isaiah; 
yet, I am constrained to believe, that, though there are undoubtedly 
many who arc not affected in any way by the translation of a good man 
from his sphere of usefulness here on the earth to a higher sphere of 
greater usefulness in the spirit-world, there are yet multitudes of nol)le, 
God-fearing men and women who are deeply moved, warned, and in- 
structed when a righteous man whom they have known, lioncred and 
loved, forsakes his tenement of clay and wings his flight into the purer 
realm of God above. I am all the more constrained so to believe, when 1 
see about me here men and women representative of that which is highest, 
purest, and best, in the life of our city, to pay a tribute of respect and 
love to l^im whose mortal remains are lying before us. Such a gathering 
speaks more eloquently of the noble life of him so recently living and 
moving about in our midst, but now Ij'ing before us wrapped in the cere- 
ments of the grave, than any words that tongue can utter. Yet let us in 
a feeble way seek to point tnit certain eternal verities so magnificently 
illustrated in tlie life of our dear friend and brother. 

It is not my purpose to leave the impression that this man was with- 
out his limitations. Like all men, he had his moral infirmities, and no 
one was more conscious of his shortcomings than was he. It was just 
because he knew himself a sinner that he sought reconciliation with God 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. When a man lives, we hear most of his 
defects in character; but when a man dies, we discover that the defects of 
good men, whatever they may have been, are so few and so trivial that 
they are not worth harboring in our memories. They are best foi gotten. 
They are fittingly consigned to oblivion. Let us do so with reference to 
whatever may have been the shortcomings of our friend and brother. 
Let it be our aim to see the many noble traits of character so beautifully 
revealed in his life; and wherein he exemplified a great moral ])rinciple 
may we be stimulated to imitation })y his example. 

* * ♦ '!= :!= ;!= :;; * 

He was recently ap]X)inteil private secretary to Governor-elect Samuel 
W. Pennypacker; he looked upon this as a great honor as well as a great 
responsibility; he said to me, the question that disturl:)s me most is, can 
I do justice to the position ? His greatest satisfaction and joy was the 



.SElJMoN \i\ nv\. [•:. V. WIEST. l.-)! 

thought that the man who appointed hiui had such contidence in liis 
ahihty, reliahiHty and judgment. It is but just to say tliat he truly loved 
the man who conferred upon him this honor. 

Mr. Dotterer was a man of manifold activities. Wherever he was, 
he made himself felt, not hy ofiiciousness, but by those good qualities of 
mind and heart that were so characteristic of him. We may say of his 
home life that it was as near the ideal as one tinds in this world. 
He and his honored wife had similar tastes and aspirations. We 
would not, however, enter too far into the sacred precincts of the home. 
We are treading here on holy ground. The joys of the past, the agonizing 
sorrow of the present, must be too sacred to us, to be further touched 
upon. Here was a home where a friend was always welcome. 80 many 
objects of interest were gathered here that a visit was always pleasant and 
profitable. 

He mingled actively in the social circle, and was at all times pre- 
pared to add to the pleasure of the occasion. He was sociable l)y nature, 
and ever found it a delight to be present at social gatherings, in the 
church, at the parsonage, or at the home of any of the members. These 
fmictions, r.nd those of a more public character, have lost one of its most 
charming members. 

In the world of business he occupied no mean place. While not 
rated among the men of large financial means, he occupied positions of 
great responsibility and trust. 

>K ^ ;i; 5^ ^ >1< ^c ^ 

We rejoice that it can be said of our friend that he never proved 
himself recreant to any trust. Pope said, "An honest man's the noblest 
work of God." Then was this man one of the noblest works of God. 
He was an honest man. 

Mr. Dotterer was closely identified with the world of religion. 
Many years ago he became a member of the Reformed Church, and ever 
since has been a faithful member thereof. For more tlian twenty-five 
years he was connected with the First Reformed Chui'ch of this city, now 
located at Tenth and ^^'allace streets. For a long time he has been secre- 
tary of the Board of Corporation. He took a [x'cuHar ))ride in carefully 
writing the minutes and in ))reserving any papers that might be of interest 
to future generations. It was remarked at the last meeting of the Board 
that the l)ook into which he copied the proceedings was filled. The book 
closes with the close of his life. Mr. Dotterer was an elder of the church 
for many years. He had the interest of the congregation at heart, and 
was ever ready to attend the meetings of the Board, or any others that 
sought to better the condition of the congregation. Ht; took especial 
pride in the long history of the congregation. As a worshipper, he was 
devout and sincerely reverent. He went not to the house of God as a 
matter of form. The church was to him the house of (Jod. Uc took 



152 THE DoTTEKEH FAMILY. 

part ill tlir services. He always sang heartily with the congregation, and 
when responsive services were used, or united prayer offered, his voice 
always mingled with the rest. His attitude was always devout, and his 
presence an ins[)iration to the pastor. He understood the deeper princi- 
ples of the Christian religion. He worshipped and served, not only from 
a sense of duty, but a sense of love to God — the highest of all motives. 
He was a liberal giver to the financial support of the church, and gave in 
a quiet way to the many purposes that appeal to the sympathetic heart. 
We, as members of the church to which he belonged, can truly say, as 
Jonathan said of David, "Thou shalt be missed, for thy seat will V)e 
empty." 

If I were asked to point out the main characteristics of his splendid 
personality, I should say, first, that he was a man of strong and settled 
moral convictions, yet without narrowness or bigotry. He had convictions 
on the great moral problems which confront every man in this life. He 
was ever ready to state and maintain them. He was an emphatic man. 
He was no waverer. He halted not between two opinions. He was 
settled in his convictions and not easily moved from any ground once 
taken. He was not headstrong, but was firm. His mind was not closed 
to arguments and facts. He was not easily convinced, but always ready 
to be convinced, if the facts were against him, and sought the nearest and 
safest way to truth and right. Then, again, he was a strong, vigorous, 
enero-etic man, vet tender as a mother in his affections. It seems to be a 
marked trait of some of the great, strong natures that have blessed the 
world, that they have the tenderest of hearts. This was one of the very 
conspicuous traits of our friend. He was a friend of the children, and 
found it not difficult to enter into their feelings, and win their hearts. 
His heart beat with sympathy for the poor and the afflicted. He was 
ever ready wdth kindly word and helpful deed whenever appealed to. 
In the next place, he was a man whose soul was above the purchasing 
l)Ower of money and worldly fame. 

^c >;< -<■ ->(■ ;'; ^f: ♦ ^' 

"Would to God that there were many more such men in all the Avalks 
of life. Then, too, he was a man Avho deeply detested shams, or false 
pretence in anything. In this respect he was a disciple of Carlyle as well 
as of Jesus of Nazareth. He was plain, unaffected, and sincere in all his 
dealings with men; and could not abide pomposity or insincerity in any 
one. Straightforwardness was his method in dealing with men. He was a 
man who loved light and hated darkness. 

Mr. Dotterer was a deeply religious man. There was no superficial- 
ity about his religious faith and practice. His religion was the fountain 
out of which sprang all the streams of his life. This was the foundation 
upon M'hich the splendid superstructure of his character was erected. 
This made him the man to be trusted with responsible positions. This 



SERMON UV REV. E. E. WIEST. i:).', 

made him the friend when companionship was an inspiration tt» higher 
thinking and nobler living; this it was that made him the splendid ex- 
am })le of the devoted husband, affectionate brother, and loyal friend. 
Were any one inclined to doubt this, he should have been at the V)edside 
when this brother was nearing the inevitable hour. There was no mur- 
muring or complaining. There was absolute resignation to the will of the 
living God. There was perfect faith in the saving power of the crucified 
Christ. There was full assurance of the Heavenly Father's merciful 
pardon, and of a glorious immortality with God and all the ransomed 
hosts of Christ. He could say with Paul, he did say with Paul, "I am 
now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the 
faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which 
the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day; and not to me 
only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." 

So far as our brother is concerned, it is all gain. The loss is ours. 
The loss is especially theirs who have been related to him by the strong 
ties of wife, brother and sister, and the other bonds of relationship. To 
them we can say that their appeal must be to that God to whom we must 
all go in such times of sorrow. We may be sure that such api)eals are 
never made in vain. Remember thai this separation is but temporary. 
It is at the longest but for a few years; and how rapidly the years come 
and go. Oh, let us wait patiently the coming tin)e when we shall be 
released from all these heart-breaking experiences, and shall again be 
with our beloved ones in the far away kingdom of God. Courage! He 
is not dead. He is risen. He lives with God. He lives, waiting for 
your coming to be with him in the Father's home on high. In the 
meanwhile, God will be with you. "I will not leave you comfortless; I 
will come to you. " "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dis- 
mayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." "The 
eternal God is thv refuge and underneath are the everlastina: arms." 



TRIBUTES OF HIS FRIENDS. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



At tlic Aiimi;il Mcctiuu nf llic 

l^(>;ii-(l of 'rmistcfs 

of 

The I'liilmlclphin Musciiins. 

lirld .):iiiii;iry I'i. UX);;. 

tlic t'ollouiiifi- minute was imaniinoiisly adopted: 

Whereas, 
The Boaid of Trustees of Tlie [Philadelphia Museums, has leiirned with 

profound sorrow of the death of 

HENRY 8. D0TTER?:R, 

for many 3'ears Assistant Treasurer of this Board, and who recently 

resigned his office to accept the position of Private' Scn^retary to the 

(n)vernor-elect of Pennsylvania: 

Resolved, That this Board desires to place on record its sincere 

appreciation of his sterling integrity, keen sense of honor, and courteous 

personality, which endeared him to all his associates, and causes a feeling 

of personal loss to each memher of the Board. 

Resolved, That we extend our deep sympathy to his family, and 
that a suitably engrossed (to])y of this minute he presented to them, and 
that it also l>e published in the newspa{)ers. 

,,,.,,,^ SYDNEY L. WRIGHT, 

w"^" w ^ „ .^.. ^iimk^ WILLIAM W. FOULKROI), 

Wilfred H. Schoff, D'tfa»3!i« 

^^W^ DANIEL P>ArGH, 
Secretarv. ^S^^k- 

^^rJcWi^ Coinmittee. 



Attest: 



158 THE DOTTKUEli FAMILY. 

At a stated meeting of the Executive Council of the Presbyterian 
Historical Society it was ordered that the following In Memoriam minute 
should be entered upon the Record : 

In the death of our highly esteemed fellow member and co-worker, 
Mr. Henry S. Dotterer, we realize that our Society has suffered the loss of 
a member who had gained distinction as an Historian, and that the 
members of the Council have been bereft of a friend who had become 
endeared to us. 

We will ever remember him as a man gifted with sterling quahties of 
mind and heart; whose character was adorned with graces and virtues; as 
a man of blameless walk and chaste conversation. 

In the business walks of life his integrity inspired confidence; his 
conscientiousness made him trustworthy; his high sense of honor raised 
him above suspicion. It was because of such qualities of character and 
of an honorable reputation that the Governor-elect of Pennsylvania, Hon. 
Samuel W. Pennypacker, selected him to serve in the confidential rela- 
tion of Private Secretary. 

As a student he was deeply interested in the history of the denomi- 
nation of which he was a member, and of his native State. Through his 
researches he made valuable contributions to our historical literature. 

As a Christian he was humble, earnest, faithful. As an Elder in the 
Church he adorned the sacred office. 

As a member of the Presbyterian Historical Society he was interested 
in its work and labored to promote its welfare. 

We tender to his bereaved family our Christian sympathy. 

Ours is the loss. His the gain. 

HENRY C. McCOOK, 
ALFRED PERCIVAL SMITH 
.lAMES CRAWFORD. 



HKSOLrTIOXS. I.V.I 

Kes()luti(nis a(loi)ted by the liimrd of Cori)Orati(in of the l'"irst 
Reformed Church, Philadelphia: 

Inasmuch as death has again taken one of our members from tlic 
church militant to the church triumphant, we, the members of tlu- l-.oard 
of Corporation of the First Reformed Church desire to record the deej) 
sense of loss that we all feel in view of the unexpected summons of Elder 
Henry S. Dotterer into the presence of God, and also, to bear tribute to 
our sincere esteem of Brother Dotterer as a Christian friend and brother. 

In Elder Dotterer we have lost an associate who for many years has 

rendered efficient service as an Elder, Secretary of the Board of Corpora- 
tion, and also by his painstaking researches in reference to our congrega- 
tional and denominational history. His kindly disposition endeared bin. 
to us all, and his loss is one that we deeply feel and deplore. Therefore, 

Resolved, That we sorroAvfully bow to the inscrutable dispensation of 
Almighty God, whereby our brother has been taken from us; that we 
rejoice in the knowledge that, in passing away, he gave such beautiful 
testimony to his faith in the saving power of our i.ord Jesus Christ; that 
we extend to Mrs. Dotterer our heartfelt sympathy in this tryiii.u hour, 
and that we commend her to the keeping of that Father who overrules 
the afflictions of the children of men for final good, and who never fails 
to sustain those who put their faith in him. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in The Gleaner, 
that a copy be spread upon the minutes of the Board of Corporation, and 
that a copy be sent to Mrs. Dotterer. 

Henry M. Weaver, President. 
0. S. Shelley, Secretary. 



PRESS NOTICES. 



From the Reformed Church. Messenger, Rev. C. J. Musser, D. J), editor. 

For such a man as Henry S. Dotterer, who died here in Philadelphia on 
January 10th, death is a gain, for such a man, faithful in all relations of life, there 
can be no defeat. Faith, loyalty to the Master in all we do, always wins the victory, 
not only over the world, but over death and the grave as well. Such have both here 
and hereafter the gift of eternal life. The loss that comes through what seems an 
untimely taking off falls not on him who goes hence, but on those who remain be- 
hind — on wife and relatives, and friends and co-laborers in the Church and the social 
community. To-day there are those who realize keenly the effect of his departure. 
But he has left behind him a rich legacy, not in wealth, but in what is worth far 
more — in the life he lived, in the good account he gave of himself in all relations of 
life, in all positions of trust, in the character he wrought out, in his witness to the 
truth, in his love to the Church, in his loyalty to the Master. In regard to the great 
and important things of life, as just enumerated, his end was not untimely. He had 
fought a good fight and had kept the faith. His living example remains to cheer 
us. For him there are abundant opportunities elsewhere to realize his high ideals of 
life and duty. 

****** * 

His appointment in December by Governor-elect Samuel W. Pennypacker as 
his private secretary is still fresh in the public mind. The politicians expressed some 
surprise at this appointment, as Mr. Dotterer had not been particularly active in 
practical politics, but the Governor, who was his personal friend, knew the worth of 
the man he had chosen, and had Mr. Dotterer lived we are confident that he would 
have filled this position not only with credit, but with great satisfaction to those most 
nearly concerned. His fidelity, his countesy, his high sense of honor, his knowledge 
of human nature, his pride in his State, and his hope to see the present administra- 
tion worthy of high regard of the best citizens, fitted him for the office to which he 
was chosen. 

* * * * * * * 

It seems but yesterday that he stood in these rooms here at the Publication 
House and looked at the pictures of pastors and of churches hanging on the wall, and 
talked interestingly and hopefully of the Church. No one could know ]\Ir. Dotterer 
long without learning of his enthusiasm for Reformed Church history. And then he 
was so genial, so true, and withal so modest and so courteous that one could not help 
but be a willing listener. Sorry, very sorry, are we that he will not call again. His 
visits were always an inspiration. Sorry, too, are we that the Church will no longer 
have his service, and not the least, but rather the greatest service he rendered the 
Church, was the upright, straightforward, healthy-minded. Christian life he led. 
Henry S. Dotterer, as a good friend, loyal husband, honest citizen, and true gentle- 
man, will always remain to those who knew him as one of the best and most satisfying 
evidences of the worth and the beautv of the Christian life. 



THKSS XOTH'KS. IGl 

Rev. J. Irwin Brown, M. A., B. D., in Our Magazine, published in 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, says: 

News has just ivaohed us of the death of Mr. Henry S. Dotteror at his home in 
Philadelphia on the 10th of Jannary. Mr. Dotterer was well known to many in our 
church. Some years ago, in company with his wife, he made a' European tour, and 
spent a winter in Rtitterdam, in examining the archives of various historical societies. 
In spite of the heavv labour involved in these resean^hes, he found time to make 
many friends, and was hel<l in high and general esteem. 

Born in 1841, Mr. Dott^M-er was educated for lousiness, and after a prosperous 
career, occupied important otticial positions in his native state, being successfully 
Assistant Treasurer of Phi]adeli)hia Connnen-ial Museums, Auditor for the National 
Export Exposition, and latterly aiipointed Secretary to the Governor. He was one 
of the leading spirits in awakening a deeper interest in everything pertaining to the 
history of the Reformed Churcli of America— a church which he loved and was j.roud 
of, and which he served with fidelity. The relationship which formerly existed 
between the Dutch and German Reformed Churches, and those in the United States, 
he had made a matter of careful study— study too at first hand in the original 
documents— and this is the suljject of his chief published articles. 

He was appointed member of several learned societies, and did a goocl'deal of 
literary work. Possessing many of the historian's gifts, painstaking accuracy, 
imagination and a clear and vivid style, he devoted them to high ehds He will be 
much missed. "But not the least service," says the Reformed Church IMessenger, 
"that he rendered the church, was the upright straightforward,- h/ealthy-ininded 
Christian life he led. He has left behind him a rich legacy in the. character he 
wrought out, in his witness to the truth, in his loyalty to the Master. ; , 

We would tender heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Dotterer an,d to all sorrowing 
relatives. . ■ 



The '(-fleanei- of First IJetcHuicd Church says in part: 

It. is with a sorrowful heart that the editor begins this artjcle. The death of 
Mr. Dotterer was so unexpected. He was yet in the prime of ,a .matured manhood 
and scented destined for manv useful years. All who knew him predicted that he 
would in every wav be al)le to meet the requirements of his new responsible position. 
Shortly after his appointment he appeared in very fair health tind in the very best of 
spirits. What a starthng reversal of expecrations! Even, yet,. we cannot make our- 
selves believe that we never shall see him again in his accustomed sent in the church. 
It is more like a nightmare than a reality. How we shall miss him! .We shall miss 
him as an officer, as a worshiper, as a very liljeral supporter of the financial part of 
our work, as a free giver to the benevolence of the church, as a genial, \v arm -hearted 
friend. 

Friends representative of the highest and best life of the city were present at 
the funeral services to show their respect for our departed brother. His death may 
be described as that of the ideal Christian. He fell asleep in Jesus. 



Committee on Necrology appointed l>y The Philadelphia Classis ot the 
.Reformed Church in the United States, after stating the principal events 
in his life and referring to his work in the church, concludes with these 
words: 

Mr. Dotterer lived a clean, upright, earnest, usefulChristian life, an-' l;^^ 
entered into the rest and reward of the faithful. He was true, noble, affable, humble 
^courteous; his splen.lid character was an exen.plificat...n ol the ex-'eil.-ncc and 
Crtv of the Christian faith and life. . .In his death he had the -j- ;'»;>;'■- '^ 
immortalitv. He is survived by his wife, who has the sincere ^-V' Pf ' »f, ^" " »'« 
knew her estimable husband. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 



1(52 THE DOTTETIER FAMILY. 



The Philadel()hia Evening Bidletiv of December 17, 1902, gives* this 
editorial : 

Governor-elect Fenny packer, in the selection of Henry S. Dotterer as his 
private secretary, has paid no attention to the politicians, but has acted on the 
principle of appointing a man to suit himself. In doing so he lias chosen a citizen 
of excellent reputation, whose careful, painstaking habits as a business man should 
make him acceptable not only to the new Governor, but to all who may have 
business to transact at the Executive office. 



The following editorial appeared in the Norristowa Daily Herald, Deeeniher 
18, 1902, Mr. Morgan R. Wills, editor : 

Every one who is acquainted with Henry S. Dotterer, rejoiced on bearing that 
he has received the appointment tendered him by Governor-elect Pennypacker. 

Mr. Dotterer is well known in this, his native county. He was born in 
Frederick township, coming of that sturdy German stock which forms so important 
an element in the population of Montgomery. He came in his boyhood to the 
county-seat, and learned the trade of printing, which has had so large a share in 
determining his pursuits. 

As a historian, Mr. Dotterer has dealt with that section of the county and 
with that element of its people with whose ancestry and whose language he was 
familiar. In his "Perkiomen Region" he has made a very important and valuable 
contribution to the annals of Montgomery county. In his researches abroad, he has 
traced many facts of deep interest to the descendants of those who came to this 
country with the tide of German immigration more than a century and a half ago. 

Mr. Dotterer is a typical Pennsylvania — earnest, honest, thoroughly devoted 
to the interests of his state and its people. There is no question of his performing 
the duties of the position to which he has been called with fidelity and success. He 
has never been prominently identified with party politics, but he is none the less 
likely to succeed on that account. 

In his first appointment, the new Governor has indicated that he will call 
around him men who will be certain to make his administration a success from its 
beginning. Should he continue to make selections of this kind he will surround 
himself with those whose earnestness and force of character are the best possible 
guarantee of the projier performance of duty. 



Kev. P. C. CroU, A. M,, of Lebanon, Editor of The Fennsylvania-Gennaa, 
states the following : 

"In the death on January 10th of Mr. Henry S. Dotterer, of Philadelphia, the 
cause of local history, especially as it pertains to our Pennsylvania-German life, has 
lost one of its most scholarly and faithful devotees. His works and publications will 
not let his name perish." 



PKESS N()TKEj5. 1G3 

From Dr. John W. Loch, Principal of Treeniount Seminary, at Norris- 
town, came this message : 

About the year 185V), there preseiiteci himself tor enrolhuent as a pupil of 
Treeuiount, Henry 8. Dotterer, of Norristown. From his subsequent integrity of 
character and his aptness as a student, and from his lovable disposition, he endeared 
himself to me from the very beginning and I predicted for him a future much 
beyond the ordinary. As the years went on, I followed his career as a b:isim*ss n i:i 
and as a historical writer, ever to my satisfaction and approval, and when the news 
reached me that in the midst of preparation for future usefulness there suddenly 
came the call "come up higher," it was with great surprise and deep sympuhy for 
his friends that so useful and promising a life should so early in life be ended. 



From the sketch written for The Independent Gazette. 

In the death of Henry S. Dotterer, Gerinantown has lost a valued friend, and 
one who has given unselfishly much time and study to the preservation of her early 
records. 

Although always a busy man, Mr. Dotterer found time to engage :n his favorite 
pursuit. It was he who originated the movement to place a monument over the 
grave of Henry Antes at Frederick. It was he who, while travelling in Switzerland, 
discovered a letter of Francis Daniel Pastorius, which gave a most valuable account 
of early Germantown. It was this letter which describes the path, beaten by the 
settlers themselves, whicii became the "Great road," and disproving the statement, 
oft repeated, that Germantown road was originally an Indian path. 

Mr. Dotterer was a man of simple tastes and loved to visit the Perkiomen 
region, and Federick, his birthplace. One of his favorite enjoyments was to take a 
trolley to CoUegeville and the Trappe, and walk through the "Dutch country." I 
remember a walking trip he described, which took him to the Union Church at 
Trappe to Grater-Ford and from thence to the home of his old friend, Judge 
Pennypacker, at Schwenksville. I also reinember a trip he and Judge Pennypacker 
made" to their mutual friend, Abraham H. Cassel, to pay their respects to tliis most 
lovable man, upon a recent iDirthday. 

It was at the 175th anniversary of the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia, 
held at his own church, where I last saw him. There he was the active spirit of the 
celebration, proud of his church's achievements, alive to its needs, conscious of its 
honored position. I see him now standing in the midst, and towering above, a 
group of congratulating admirers ; his robust form, appearing the embodiment of 
health, and giving promise of years of good service and honor stretching out before 

him. .... 

His heartv manner and kindly face I shall not soon forget, and pnvdeged was 
he who, touching his charming personality, and who favored by tlie sunshine of his 
cheering nature, discovered within the blessings transmitted through many genera- 
tions, and certifying to the genuineness of the original stock. E. C. J. 
Germantown, .January 11. IOCS. 



U>4 TllK DOTTKKEIJ FAMILY. 



From the Norristown Dally Herald, jMonda}^ January 12, 1908 : Mr. 
Ellwood Roberts, associate editor. 

The death of Henry S. Dotterer, just as he and his friends expected that he 
was about to enter upon a new career of honor and usefulness at Harrisburg, tills 
many minds with regret which ordinary language is entirely inadequate to express. 
He was an earnest student ; a successful worker in whatever he undertook, but 
especially in the line of historical research, in which he was thoroughly at home ; an 
honest and conscientious citizen, and a faithful friend. 

Boin in this county sixty-one years ago, he had not lived out anything like 
the full measure of his usefulness, judging by ordinary experience. Anyone would 
liave imagined who gave the matter a thought, that there was still reserved for him 
a score or more of years for useful labor such as he knew how to do so well. It is 
another lesson on the uncertainty of human life, that 'Sir. Dotterer should have 
passed away so soon, struck down in the very midst of a successful and honorable 
career. 

A native of Montgomery county, and a descendant of one of its oldest (iJerman 
families, Mr. Dotterer's pursuits took him to Philadelphia, where he became 
involved in the complications of active business life, but the memory of his early 
home still lingered with him. How he remembered it is shown in the patient, 
painstaking work be has done in his ''Perkioraen Region." In this publication, 
undertaken not for pecuniary profit but for the pui-pose of gathering up the scattered 
threads of family history that nothing of value might be lost, he has preserved 
n)uch that will be appreciated by the historian of the future. His excellent work 
in this direction often gave I'ise to expression of regret that no one could be found 
to perform a similar service for other sections of the county. Never will that 
interesting portion of Montgomery find another historian so learned, so accurate, 
and so unselfish as he. 

When Governor Penny-packer ignored the ordinary rule of making the 
apointment of Private Secretai-y a matter of political significance, and conferred 
the position on his worthy friend, everybody felt that a most excellent choice 
had been made, and one that would prove the selection to be fully justified. His 
ability, his fidelity and his sagacity would have rendered his services extremely 
valuable in the new capacity. It was not to be, however. That mystei-ious influence 
nhich irien call fate had decreed otherwise, and he who was to have been the close 
friend and the trusted adviser of the Executive of the state at Hari-isbui-g, has 
passed from time to etei-nity so quickly that the blow may be said to have been 
literally without warning. 

in bidding farewell forever to a personality so modest and unassuming, so 
courteous, and so thoroughly lovable, it is a consolation to reflect that the influence 
of such a life is never wholly lost. The memory of such is blessed, and a life like 
his will continue on its mission of usefulness to humanity, long after the form of him 
who was the embodiment of kindness and goodness shall have crumbled into dust. 



Many daily and weekly }>a])ers throughout the State; gave nf)tit-es of 
Mr. Dotterer's recent a])poi]-itment and of his death. 

The Philadelphia dailies that gave extended notices were: The Ledger, 
Press, Inquirer, Evening Bidletin, Evening Telegraph, Record, North American, 
Rem and CI enn an Demolrnt. 



' 'So lire, that, when th;/ summoiu cmnes to join 
The innumerable cara/van, that moves 
To that 'luyaterious realm, where each shall take 
Hh chamher in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night. 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
Like one who draws the drapery of his couch 
About him, and Hex down to pleasant dream.'^." 

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